Definition of petition

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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..

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Asker :: Asker (n.) One who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer.
Rivality :: Rivality (n.) Rivalry; competition.
Memorialize :: Memorialize (v. t.) To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature..
Unite :: Unite (v. i.) To join in an act; to concur; to act in concert; as, all parties united in signing the petition..
Supplicated :: Supplicat (n.) A petition; esp., a written one, with a certificate that the conditions have been complied with..
Asking :: Asking (n.) The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation.
Anaphora :: Anaphora (n.) A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.
Worst :: Worst (a.) To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit..
Competitive :: Competitive (a.) Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination..
Repetition :: Repetition (n.) The act of repeating, singing, or playing, the same piece or part a second time; reiteration of a note..
Frequentative :: Frequentative (a.) Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb..
Address :: Address (v.) To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience)..
Rondeau :: Rondeau (n.) A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule..
Implore :: Implore (v. t.) To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought..
Variation :: Variation (n.) Repetition of a theme or melody with fanciful embellishments or modifications, in time, tune, or harmony, or sometimes change of key; the presentation of a musical thought in new and varied aspects, yet so that the essential features of the original shall still preserve their identity..
Prize :: Prize (n.) A contest for a reward; competition.
Intercession :: Intercession (n.) The act of interceding; mediation; interposition between parties at variance, with a view to reconcilation; prayer, petition, or entreaty in favor of, or (less often) against, another or others..
Supplicancy :: Suppliant (n.) One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively.
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..
Irksome :: Irksome (a.) Wearisome; tedious; disagreeable or troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition; as, irksome hours; irksome tasks..
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