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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Drill :: Drill (n.) Any exercise, physical or mental, enforced with regularity and by constant repetition; as, a severe drill in Latin grammar..
Memorial :: Memorial (n.) A written representation of facts, addressed to the government, or to some branch of it, or to a society, etc., -- often accompanied with a petition..
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..
Suitor :: Suitor (n.) One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant..
Replication :: Replication (n.) A repetition; a copy.
Vie :: Vie (v. i.) To strive for superiority; to contend; to use emulous effort, as in a race, contest, or competition..
Repeat :: Repeat (n.) The act of repeating; repetition.
Epiphora :: Epiphora (n.) The emphatic repetition of a word or phrase, at the end of several sentences or stanzas..
Address :: Address (v.) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost..
Tautophony :: Tautophony (n.) Repetition of the same sound.
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..
Suffrage :: Suffrage (n.) A short petition, as those after the creed in matins and evensong..
Asker :: Asker (n.) One who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer.
Worst :: Worst (a.) To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit..
Repetitious :: Repetitious (a.) Repeating; containing repetition.
Peloria :: Peloria (n.) Abnormal regularity; the state of certain flowers, which, being naturally irregular, have become regular through a symmetrical repetition of the special irregularity..
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..
Beg :: Beg (v. t.) To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor..
Gemination :: Gemination (n.) A doubling; duplication; repetition.
Petitionary :: Petitionary (a.) Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition; as, a petitionary epistle..
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