Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Petitioning"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Petitioning \Pe*ti"tion*ing\, n.
The act of presenting apetition; a supplication.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
You have . . . petitioned all the gods for my
prosperity. --Shak.
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