About The Word Petition
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Petition
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What's The Definition Of Petition?
[n] a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
[n] reverent petition to a deity [v] write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing Synonyms | Synonyms for Petition: orison | postulation | prayer | request Related Terms | Find terms related to Petition: address | aid prayer | Angelus | appeal | appeal to | application | apply for | apply to | ask | asking | Ave | Ave Maria | 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 | Hail Mary | impetration | imploration | implore | importune | imprecation | indent | intercession | invocation | invoke | Kyrie Eleison | litany | make supplication | meditation | memorialize | obsecration | obtestation | offer a prayer | orison | Paternoster | 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 See Also | appeal | application | asking | benediction | bespeak | blessing | call for | collect | collection | commination | content | demand | deprecation | grace | ingathering | intercession | invocation | message | quest | request | requiescat | solicitation | subject matter | substance | supplicate | supplication | thanksgiving Petition In Webster's Dictionary \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.
A house of prayer and petition for thy people. --1
Macc. vii. 37.
This last petition heard of all her prayer.
--Dryden.
2. A formal written request addressed to an official person,
or to an organized body, having power to grant it;
specifically (Law), a supplication to government, in
either of its branches, for the granting of a particular
grace or right; -- in distinction from a memorial, which
calls certain facts to mind; also, the written document.
{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.
\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. You have . . . petitioned all the gods for my prosperity. --Shak. \Pe*ti"tion\, v. i. To make a petition or solicitation. |
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