0 past simple and past participle of petition
1 to make a formal request for something, especially in a law court:
They're petitioning for/about better facilities for disabled people.
[ + obj + to infinitive ] I think we should petition the government to increase the grant for the project.
She is petitioning for a re-trial.
It is unknown if the indigenous community prevailed in this case, but in any event it petitioned the state again just three years later.
Unwilling to accept this change in legal status, the expatriate originaire community once again petitioned the administration.
She is also petitioned by healers seeking cures for sick children.
With population pressure rising, some residents petitioned to fill-in the palace moat and use that land for new construction.
In other words, popular protest petitioned as much as it denounced, supplicated as much as it threatened.
Faced with his non-paternity, he petitioned the court to curtail his financial obligation to the child.
The minster clergy petitioned the bailiffs on her behalf for licence to enclose, but the bailiffs refused.
Throughout the colonial period, railway workers petitioned for favorable postings and protested transfers to areas undesirable to them.
