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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
petition
n 1: a formal message requesting something that is submitted to
an authority [syn: request, petition, postulation]
2: reverent petition to a deity [syn: prayer, petition,
orison]
v 1: write a petition for something to somebody; request
formally and in writing
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Petition \Pe*ti"tion\, n. [F. p['e]tition, L. petitio, fr.
petere, petitum, to beg, ask, seek; perh. akin to E. feather,
or find.]
1. A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty;
especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer
to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power,
rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a
prayer.
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A house of prayer and petition for thy people. --1
Macc. vii. 37.
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This last petition heard of all her prayer.
--Dryden.
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2. A formal written request addressed to an official person,
or to an organized body, having power to grant it.
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3. Specifically: (Law), A request to government, in either of
its branches, for the granting of a particular grace or
right, or for the legislature to take a specific action;
-- in distinction from a memorial, which calls certain
facts to mind. The petition may be signed by one or any
number of persons.
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4. The written document containing a petition (senses 1 or
2).
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Petition of right (Law), a petition to obtain possession or
restitution of property, either real or personal, from the
Crown, which suggests such a title as controverts the
title of the Crown, grounded on facts disclosed in the
petition itself. --Mozley & W.
The Petition of Right (Eng. Hist.), the parliamentary
declaration of the rights of the people, assented to by
Charles I.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Petition \Pe*ti"tion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Petitioned; p. pr.
& vb. n. Petitioning.]
To make a prayer or request to; to ask from; to solicit; to
entreat; especially, to make a formal written supplication,
or application to, as to any branch of the government; as, to
petition the court; to petition the governor.
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You have . . . petitioned all the gods for my
prosperity. --Shak.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Petition \Pe*ti"tion\, v. i.
To make a petition or solicitation.
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Thesaurus Results for Petition:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, address, aid prayer, appeal, appeal to, application, apply for, apply to, ask, asking, beadroll, beads, beg, beseech, beseechment, bidding prayer, breviary, call on, call upon, chaplet, circulate a petition, collect, commune with God, communion, contemplation, demand, desire, devotions, entreat, entreaty, expressed desire, give thanks, grace, impetration, imploration, implore, importune, imprecation, indent, intercession, invocation, invoke, litany, make supplication, meditation, memorialize, obsecration, obtestation, offer a prayer, orison, plea, plead, pray, pray over, prayer, prayer wheel, prefer a petition, recite the rosary, request, requisition, return thanks, rogation, rosary, say grace, sign a petition, silent prayer, solicit, solicitation, sue, suit, supplicate, supplication, thanks, thanksgiving, wish |
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Common Misspellings > |
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