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Definition of Petition
Pe`ti´tion | n. | 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. | | 2. | (Law) 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. | | v. t. | 1. | 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. | | v. i. | 1. | To make a petition or solicitation. |
Related Words
Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, address, aid prayer, appeal to, 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, expressed desire, give thanks, grace, impetration, imploration, implore, importune, imprecation, indent, intercession, invoke, litany, make supplication, meditation, memorialize, obsecration, obtestation, offer a prayer, orison, plead, pray, pray over, prayer wheel, prefer a petition, recite the rosary, requisition, return thanks, rogation, rosary, say grace, sign a petition, silent prayer, solicit, sue, supplicate, thanks, thanksgiving, wish
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