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PETITION
request, petition, postulation
(noun) a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
prayer, petition, orison
(noun) reverent petition to a deity
petition
(verb) write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
petition (plural petitions)
A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures.
A compilation of signatures built in order to exert moral authority in support of a specific cause.
(legal) A formal written request for judicial action.
A prayer; a supplication; an entreaty.
Verb
petition (third-person singular simple present petitions, present participle petitioning, simple past and past participle petitioned)
(transitive) To make a request to, commonly in written form.
Source: Wiktionary
Pe*ti"tion, n. Etym: [F. pétition, 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.]
Definition: 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.
Definition: To make a petition or solicitation.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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CUNT
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