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petition 音標拼音: [pət'ɪʃən] n. 請愿,訴狀,陳情書
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vi. 請求,懇求,請愿 請願,訴狀,陳情書請求,懇求,請願 petition n 1: a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority [ synonym: { request}, { petition}, { postulation}] 2: reverent petition to a deity [ synonym: { prayer}, { petition}, { orison}] v 1: write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writingPetition \ Pe* ti" tion\, n. [ F. p[' e] tition, L. petitio, fr. petere, petitum, to beg, ask, seek; perh. akin to E. feather, or find.] 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. [ 1913 Webster] A house of prayer and petition for thy people. -- 1 Macc. vii. 37. [ 1913 Webster] This last petition heard of all her prayer. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A formal written request addressed to an official person, or to an organized body, having power to grant it. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Specifically: ( Law), A request to government, in either of its branches, for the granting of a particular grace or right, or for the legislature to take a specific action; -- in distinction from a { memorial}, which calls certain facts to mind. The petition may be signed by one or any number of persons. [ 1913 Webster PJC] 4. The written document containing a { petition} ( senses 1 or 2). [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Petition \ Pe* ti" tion\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Petitioned}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Petitioning}.] 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. [ 1913 Webster] You have . . . petitioned all the gods for my prosperity. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Petition \ Pe* ti" tion\, v. i. To make a petition or solicitation. [ 1913 Webster] 80 Moby Thesaurus words for " petition": Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, address, aid prayer, appeal, appeal to, application, apply for, apply to, ask, asking, beadroll, beads, beg, beseech, beseechment, bidding prayer, breviary, call on, call upon, chaplet, circulate a petition, collect, commune with God, communion, contemplation, demand, desire, devotions, entreat, entreaty, expressed desire, give thanks, grace, impetration, imploration, implore, importune, imprecation, indent, intercession, invocation, invoke, litany, make supplication, meditation, memorialize, obsecration, obtestation, offer a prayer, orison, plea, plead, pray, pray over, prayer, prayer wheel, prefer a petition, recite the rosary, request, requisition, return thanks, rogation, rosary, say grace, sign a petition, silent prayer, solicit, solicitation, sue, suit, supplicate, supplication, thanks, thanksgiving, wish
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