Definition for PE-TI'TION

PE-TI'TION, v.t.

To make a request to; to ask from; to solicit; particularly, to make supplication to a superior for some favor or right; as, to petition the legislature; to petition a court of chancery. The mother petitioned her goddess to bestow on them the greatest gift that could be given. – Addison.

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