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

Prayer :: Prayer (v. i.) The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body..

Tend :: Tend (a.) To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction..

Respondent :: Respondent (n.) One who answers in certain suits or proceedings, generally those which are not according to the course of the common law, as in equity and admiralty causes, in petitions for partition, and the like; -- distinquished from appellant..

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

Contest :: Contest (n.) Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife in arms; conflict; combat; encounter..

Encore :: Encore (adv. / interj.) Once more; again; -- used by the auditors and spectators of plays, concerts, and other entertainments, to call for a repetition of a particular part..

Present :: Present (a.) To lay before a public body, or an official, for consideration, as before a legislature, a court of judicature, a corporation, etc.; as, to present a memorial, petition, remonstrance, or indictment..

Vie :: Vie (v. t.) To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy..

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

Ritornello :: Ritornello (n.) A short return or repetition; a concluding symphony to an air, often consisting of the burden of the song..

Memorialize :: Memorialize (v. t.) To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature..

Antanaclasis :: Antanaclasis (n.) A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc..

Desire :: Desire (v. t.) An expressed wish; a request; petition.

Winner :: Winner (n.) One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming..

Rival :: Rival (a.) Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions..

Grace :: Grace (n.) A petition for grace; a blessing asked, or thanks rendered, before or after a meal..

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.

Petitory :: Petitory (a.) Petitioning; soliciting; supplicating.

Mill :: Mill (n.) A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc..

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