Appetition :: Appetition (n.) Desire; a longing for, or seeking after, something..

Competition :: Competition (n.) The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with..

Petition :: Petition (n.) 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..

Petition :: Petition (n.) 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 :: Petition (v. t.) 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..

Petition :: Petition (v. i.) To make a petition or solicitation.

Petitionarily :: Petitionarily (adv.) By way of begging the question; by an assumption.

Petitionary :: Petitionary (a.) Supplicatory; making a petition.

Petitionary :: Petitionary (a.) Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition; as, a petitionary epistle..

Petitioned :: Petitioned (imp. & p. p.) of Petitio.

Petitionee :: Petitionee (n.) A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition..

Petitioner :: Petitioner (n.) One who presents a petition.

Petitioning :: Petitioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Petitio.

Petitioning :: Petitioning (n.) The act of presenting apetition; a supplication.

Repetition :: Repetition (n.) The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.

Repetition :: Repetition (n.) Recital from memory; rehearsal.

Repetition :: Repetition (n.) The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note..

Repetition :: Repetition (n.) Reiteration, or repeating the same word, or the same sense in different words, for the purpose of making a deeper impression on the audience..

Repetition :: Repetition (n.) The measurement of an angle by successive observations with a repeating instrument.

Repetitional :: Repetitional (a.) Alt. of Repetitionar.

Repetitionary :: Repetitionary (a.) Of the nature of, or containing, repetition..

Repetitioner :: Repetitioner (n.) One who repeats.

Repetitious :: Repetitious (a.) Repeating; containing repetition.

Self-repetition :: Self-repetition (n.) Repetition of one's self or of one's acts; the saying or doing what one has already said or done.

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