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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.

By way of begging the question; by an assumption. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Supplicatory; making a petition. Pardon Rome, and any petitionary countrymen. Shak.

A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition.

One who presents a petition.

The act of presenting apetition; a supplication.

Desire; a longing for, or seeking after, something. Holland.

ed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with. Competition to the crown there is none, nor can be. Bacon. A portrait, with which one of Titian's could not come in competititon. Dryden. There is no competition but for the second place. Dryden. Where competition does not act at all…

iteration. I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition. Shak.

Of the nature of, or containing, repetition. [R.]

One who repeats. [Obs.]

Repetition of one's self or of one's acts; the saying or doing what one has already said or done.

y-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience). The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance. Dryden.

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: - Behemoth, biggest born of earth, upheaved His vastness. Milton. Fly o'er waste fens and windy fields. Tennyson.

A repetition of the last word or any prominent word in a sentence or clause, at the beginning of the next, with an adjunct idea; as, "He retained his virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."

A repetition of a word or of words at the beginning of two or more successive clauses.

A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc.

The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master.

One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner. The applicant for a cup of water. Plumtre. The court require the applicant to appear in person. Z. Swift.