0 past simple and past participle of petition --
1 to make a formal request for something, especially in a law court: --
She is petitioning for a re-trial.
[ + obj + to infinitive ] I think we should petition the government to increase the grant for the project.
They're petitioning for/about better facilities for disabled people.
Unfortunately, the local people petitioned against the play area because they feared the presence of vandals and youths on motor cycles in the evenings.
Instead, there seems to have been potent super-normal entities associated with natural phenomena, which may have been petitioned by some individuals as patrons of spiritual and political power.
In one of these cases two brothers petitioned the court, arguing that their elder brother had illegally sold a piece of ground, which they had bought 'jointly'.
These figures could represent important ancestors or perhaps are representations of deities who may have been petitioned, venerated, or de-animated through the practice of incense burning.
The temporary nature of these measures led to heightened tensions within the commercial sector each time the expiry date approached and both sides petitioned the state for further action.
For example, a group of artisans petitioned the palace to complain about the amount of the contributions the commission was asking of them.
A group of leading coffeemen and women petitioned his majesty once more to allow them to continue practising their trade.
Throughout the colonial period, railway workers petitioned for favorable postings and protested transfers to areas undesirable to them.
