lambaste

verb   1 : to assault violently : beat, whip   2 : to attack verbally : censure

adynaton

noun

†1.  An impossibility. Obs.

"It seems impossible..that God should relinquish his claim to their profoundest homage. This would be to deny himself; which the apostle reckons among the Adynata."

 2.  Rhetoric. A figure of speech by which an impossible (or highly unlikely) situation is used for emphasis; an instance of this.

"Portents..are of course common form in tragedy, and the figure known as adynaton (i.e., ‘sooner shall rivers run from the sea than I forsake thee’, etc.) is common form in rhetoric."

orans

Orant, orante

noun Fine Arts .

a representation of a female (or male) figure, with outstretched arms and palms up in a gesture of prayer, in ancient and early Christian art.