petition

t. & i. [PETITION, 8.] IMG:content-0958.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Offering or making a petition; supplicatory. "To pardon Rome and thy petitionary countrymen." 2. Containing or of the nature of a petition or "Brevity of speech commends itself by, in all petition ary addre es, a peculiar respect to the person addre ed to."-South: Sermons, vol. ii., ser. 4. entreaty. *pě-ti-tion-ee', s. [Eng. petition ; -ee.] A person cited to answer or defend a petition.