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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..

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

Repeat :: Repeat (n.) The act of repeating; repetition.

Run :: Run (n.) Continued repetition on the stage; -- said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights..

Premium :: Premium (n.) A reward or recompense; a prize to be won by being before another, or others, in a competition; reward or prize to be adjudged; a bounty; as, a premium for good behavior or scholarship, for discoveries, etc..

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

Entreat :: Entreat (v. t.) To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition or pray with urgency; to supplicate; to importune..

Encore :: Encore (n.) A call or demand (as, by continued applause) for a repetition; as, the encores were numerous..

Address :: Address (v. t.) A formal communication, either written or spoken; a discourse; a speech; a formal application to any one; a petition; a formal statement on some subject or special occasion; as, an address of thanks, an address to the voters..

Impetrable :: Impetrable (a.) Capable of being obtained or moved by petition.

Double-tonguing :: Double-tonguing (n.) A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing..

Asking :: Asking (n.) The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation.

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

Stutter :: Stutter (v. t. & i.) To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.

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..

Sympode :: Symploce (n.) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning and another at the end of successive clauses; as, Justice came down from heaven to view the earth; Justice returned to heaven, and left the earth..

Rondeau :: Rondeau (n.) A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule..

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

Commitment :: Commitment (n.) The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill..

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