petition

1. n. 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. Source: opted

2. 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. Source: opted

3. 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. Source: opted

4. v. i. To make a petition or solicitation. Source: opted

5. n. a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority Source: wordnet

6. n. reverent petition to a deity Source: wordnet

7. v. write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing Source: wordnet

8. 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. 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. To make a petition or solicitation. Source: webster

9. To make a prayer or request to; to ask from; to solicit; toentreat; especially, to make a formal written supplication, orapplication to, as to any branch of the government; as, to petitionthe court; to petition the governor.You have . . . petitioned all the gods for my prosperity. Shak. Source: adambom

10. v:25/n:75 v. write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing Source: ecdict

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