A formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority.

synonyms: postulation, request.

Roget 765: request, requisition; claim etc. (demand) 741; petition, suit, prayer; begging letter, round robin.    motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal, apostrophe; imprecation; rogation; proposal, proposition.    orison etc. (worship) 990; incantation etc. (spell) 993.    mendicancy; asking, begging etc. v.; postulation, solicitation, invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration^†, imploration^†, obsecration^†, obtestation^†, invocation, interpellation.    ... show more

Dutch: vraag, aanvraag, petitie, petitionnement, rekest, smeekschrift, verzoek, verzoekschrift

Reverent petition to a deity.

synonyms: orison, prayer.

Roget 990: worship, adoration, devotion, aspiration, homage, service, humiliation; kneeling, genuflection, prostration.    prayer, invocation, supplication, rogation, intercession, orison, holy breathing; petition etc. (request) 765; collect, litany, Lord's prayer, paternoster [Lat.]; beadroll^†; latria^†, dulia^†, hyperdulia^†, vigils; revival; cult; anxious meeting, camp meeting; ebenezer, virginal.    thanksgiving; giving thanks, returning thanks; grace, praise, glorification, benediction, doxology, hosanna; hallelujah, allelujah^†; Te Deum [Lat.], non nobis Domine [Lat.], nunc dimittis [Lat.]; paean; benschen [G.]; Ave Maria, O Salutaris, Sanctus [Lat.], The Annunciation, Tersanctus, Trisagion.    psalm, psalmody; hymn, plain song, chant, chaunt, response, anthem, motet; antiphon^†, antiphony.    oblation, sacrifice, incense, libation; burnt offering, heave offering, votive offering; offertory.    discipline; self-discipline, self-examination, self-denial; fasting.    divine service, office, duty; exercises; morning prayer; mass, matins, evensong, vespers; undernsong^†, tierce^†; holyday etc. (rites) 998.    worshipper, congregation, communicant, celebrant.    ... show more

Dutch: gebed, bede, petitie, petitionnement, smeekbede, supplicatie, voorbede

Write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing.

Roget 765: request, ask; beg, crave, sue, pray, petition, solicit, invite, pop the question, make bold to ask; beg leave, beg a boon; apply to, call to, put to; call upon, call for; make a request, address a request, prefer a request, put up a request, make a prayer, address a prayer, prefer a prayer, put up a prayer, make a petition, address a petition, prefer a petition, put up a petition; make application, make a requisition; ask trouble, ask one for; claim etc. (demand) 741; offer up prayers etc. (worship) 990; whistle for.    beg hard, entreat, beseech, plead, supplicate, implore; conjure, adjure; obtest^†; cry to, kneel to, appeal to; invoke, evoke; impetrate^†, imprecate, ply, press, urge, beset, importune, dun, tax, clamor for; cry aloud, cry for help; fall on one's knees; throw oneself at the feet of; come down on one's marrowbones.    beg from door to door, send the hat round, go a begging; mendicate^†, mump^†, cadge, beg one's bread.    dance attendance on, besiege, knock at the door.    bespeak, canvass, tout, make interest, court; seek, bid for etc. (offer) 763; publish the banns.    ... show more