Petition

Noun

 * 1) A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures.
 * 2) A compilation of signatures built in order to exert moral authority in support of a specific cause.
 * 3)  A formal written request for judicial action.

Verb

 * 1) To make a request, commonly in written form.

Adjectives for Petition
suitable; begging; respectful; vain; bare; urgent; signed; lengthy; eloquent; specific; unanswered; discarded.

Verbs for Petition
address—; deny—; enter—; evoke—; file —; press—; repeat—; resort to—; seek in —; solicit—; —appeals to; — beset; — demands; —pleads; —protests; —supplicates.

Adverbs for Petition
fruitlessly; legally; urgently; lengthily; eloquently;  specifically;   vainly;   slavishly; humbly.

Thesaurus
Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, address, aid prayer, appeal, appeal to, application, apply for, apply to, ask, asking, beadroll, beads, beg, beseech, beseechment, bidding prayer, breviary, call on, call upon, chaplet, circulate a petition, collect, commune with God, communion, contemplation, demand, desire, devotions, entreat, entreaty, expressed desire, give thanks, grace, impetration, imploration, implore, importune, imprecation, indent, intercession, invocation, invoke, litany, make supplication, meditation, memorialize, obsecration, obtestation, offer a prayer, orison, plea, plead, pray, pray over, prayer, prayer wheel, prefer a petition, recite the rosary, request, requisition, return thanks, rogation, rosary, say grace, sign a petition, silent prayer, solicit, solicitation, sue, suit, supplicate, supplication, thanks, thanksgiving, wish

Etymology
, from peticiun:, from stem of  petitio:, from peto:

Noun

 * Dutch: verzoekschrift, petitie
 * Finnish:
 * French: pétition
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: petição
 * Russian: заявление
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Finnish:
 * Russian: петиция


 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Russian: заявление, ходатайство, жалоба


 * Scottish Gaelic: ,

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * French: pétitionner


 * Russian: подавать (заявление, петиция, etc.)
 * Scottish Gaelic:

Noun

 * 1) petition (formal, written request made to a parliament or an official person)