单词 | petitioner |
释义 | petitionern. 1. a. A person or party who makes a petition or formally presents one to an authority. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > one who requests > [noun] > one who petitions or appeals beseecher1382 petitioner1414 suitor1414 orator1417 suppliantc1422 supplicant1475 soliciter1536 solicitor1551 oratricle1574 pleader1584 supplicationer1585 beggar1589 incaller?1591 supplicator1593 petitor1596 beadsman1600 impetrator1605 implorer1611 imploratora1616 replicant1622 invokera1649 prostrate1648 deprecator1656 appellant1704 memorialist1706 applicationer1710 postulant1733 invocant1751 solicitant1821 petitionist1822 memorializer1859 1414 Rolls of Parl. IV. 22/2 The Comune of youre lond..ben as well Assentirs as Peticioners. c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 10 (MED) Whane he hadde peysyd the goode wille of the mane prudently..grauntid to the peticioner his kyngly fauore. ?1525 tr. G. Alexis Interlocucyon betwyxt Man & Woman sig. Aiii Woman is honored in every place For quene of erth and of heven hye Whiche is petycioner for mannes trespace To good. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 206 O vaine peticioner, begg a greater matter, Thou now requests but Mooneshine in the water. View more context for this quotation 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 14 I would be understood..an humble Petitioner, that ignorant and tender conscienced Anabaptists may have due time and means of conviction. 1705 K. Philips Lett. from Orinda 66 To avoid the Shame of seeing him who had so lately commanded a Kingdom, become a Petitioner to me for such a Trifle, I obey'd him. 1792 J. Almon Anecd. Life W. Pitt (octavo ed.) I. viii. 182 The relief desired by the petitioners. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xi. 714 Some petitioners asked to be heard by counsel. 1927 A. C. Parker Indian How Bk. v. lviii. 253 Originally the stem was a wand through which the breath of the petitioner was drawn in order that he might have power within him from ‘on high’. 1988 ‘E. Peters’ Confession Brother Haluin iii. 42 Radulfus regarded the petitioner in silence. 2003 Washington Post (Nexis) 23 Apr. a35 Outside his gate a throng of petitioners is clamoring for jobs or favors. b. spec. Any of those who signed an address to Charles II in 1680, petitioning for the summoning of Parliament. Usually in plural. Now historical.Frequently opposed to abhorrer n. 2. ΚΠ 1681 Petition to Charles II in J. Somers Coll. Tracts (1748) I. 106/2 The Premises considered, We your Majesty's Petitioners, out of a just Abhorrence of such a dangerous and pernicious Council [etc.]. 1731 N. Tindal tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. XIV. xxiii. 244 As soon as the Parliament was prorogued, the Duke of York at Court, a great Number of contrary Addresses were presented in Abhorrence of the former; so that two Parties were formed called the Petitioners and the Abhorrers. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 256 Opponents of the Court were called Birminghams, Petitioners, and Exclusionists. Those who took the King's side were Antibirminghams, Abhorrers, and Tantivies. 1891 S. R. Gardiner Student's Hist. Eng. II. 620 The two parties were known as Petitioners and Abhorrers, names which were soon replaced by those of Whig and Tory. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 62/1 The addresses of the Abhorrers which reached the king from all parts of the country formed a counterblast to those of the Petitioners. 1997 Eng. Hist. Rev. 112 309 From the petitioners' point of view, the calling of the second Parliament was intended to pursue the cause of exclusion. 2. Law. A plaintiff, esp. a creditor, petitioning in a suit or action. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > party in litigation > [noun] > plaintiff > petitioner beseecherc1400 petitioner1503 orator1547 society > trade and finance > management of money > solvency > [noun] > creditor > types of mortgagee1584 feoffee1590 judgment creditor1702 bond-creditor1710 petitioning creditor1720 apprizer1754 bondholder1823 rider1826 petitioner1854 preferential1903 society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > party in litigation > [noun] > plaintiff > in specific type of action petitioning creditor1720 libellant1726 replevisor1837 petitioner1854 1503 Rolls of Parl. VI. 526/1 By whiche longe tracte of tyme, the said Sueters and Peticioners were and shulde be discomforted. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) i. iii. 25 Alas Sir, I am but a poore Petitioner of our whole Towneship. View more context for this quotation 1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 30 But Save me most from my Petitioners. Unsatiate as the barren Womb or Grave. 1724 J. Henley et al. tr. Pliny the Younger Epist. & Panegyrick I. v. xiv. 243 Practis'd as he was in the Art of Speaking, he endeavour'd to appear more with the Air of a Petitioner, than an Advocate. 1767 in Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1881) XII. 618 Under the circumstances the petitioner ought not in equity to be holden to answer the same to the petitionee. a1832 A. Polson Eng. Law in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 835/1 Praying his lordship to issue his fiat, authorizing the petitioner, as such creditor, to prosecute his complaint in her Majesty's Court of Bankruptcy. 1854 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. III. xxvii. 548 The question, as presented by Dunning, was already decided in favour of the petitioners. 1901 Southern Reporter 28 900 It is stated in the petition that the action is brought not only on behalf of the petitioners, but also of 500 other taxpayers. 1991 J. H. Farrar et al. Company Law 466 While it will usually be the case that the conduct complained of [in a petition under the Companies Act 1985, s. 459] will have damaged..the value of the petitioner's shareholding, this is not a requirement. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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