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Definition of petition

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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..

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

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..

Stake :: Stake (v. t.) To put at hazard upon the issue of competition, or upon a future contingency; to wager; to pledge..

Competitory :: Competitory (a.) Acting in competition; competing; rival.

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..

Winning :: Winning (n.) The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition..

Dismiss :: Dismiss (v. t.) To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court..

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..

Mesymnicum :: Mesymnicum (n.) A repetition at the end of a stanza.

Supplicated :: Supplicat (n.) A petition; esp., a written one, with a certificate that the conditions have been complied with..

Prize :: Prize (n.) A contest for a reward; competition.

Pronoun :: Pronoun (n.) A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you, he, she, it, we, ye, and they..

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

Worst :: Worst (a.) To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit..

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

Ejaculatory :: Ejaculatory (a.) Suddenly darted out; uttered in short sentences; as, an ejaculatory prayer or petition..

Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form..

Phyton :: Phyton (n.) One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves; a phytomer..

Bidding Prayer :: Bidding prayer () The prayer before the sermon, with petitions for various specified classes of persons..

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..