PETITIONING Synonyms

• a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority

• the verbal act of requesting

• express the need or desire for

• ask (a person) to do something

• inquire for (information)

• earnest or urgent request

• attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates

• (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial

• request for a sum of money

• take a court case to a higher court for review

• request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection

• be attractive to

• challenge (a decision)

• cite as an authority; resort to

• put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose

• be pertinent or relevant or applicable

• ask (for something)

• coat, cover or smear a surface with

• be applicable to; as to an analysis

• give or convey physically

• avail oneself to

• ensure observance of laws and rules

• refer (a word or name) to a person or thing

• apply oneself to

• make a request or demand for something to somebody

• direct or put; seek an answer to

• consider obligatory; request and expect

• address a question to and expect an answer from

• require as useful, just, or proper

• make a date

• require or ask for as a price or condition

• call upon in supplication; entreat

• make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently

• ask to obtain free

• dodge, avoid answering, or take for granted

• an authoritative direction or instruction to do something

• an attempt to get something

• a formal proposal to buy at a specified price

• (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make

• propose a payment

• invoke upon

• ask for or request earnestly

• make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands

• make a serious effort to attain something

• ask someone in a friendly way to do something

• ask for or request earnestly

• call upon in supplication; entreat

• appeal or request earnestly

• offer as an excuse or plea

• enter a plea, as in courts of law

• make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts

• make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently

• make amorous advances towards

• approach with an offer of sexual favors

• incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination

• make a solicitation or petition for something desired

• French writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857)

• institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against

• ask humbly (for something)

• make a humble, earnest petition

• ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer

• an instinctive motive

• a strong restless desire

• force or impel in an indicated direction

• push for something

• spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

• express the need or desire for

• require as useful, just, or proper

• request the participation or presence of

• gather or collect

• reverent petition to a deity

• (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument

• a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority

• the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving)

• reverent petition to a deity

• earnest or urgent request

• a fixed text used in praying

• someone who prays to God