petitioned

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Petitioned for the disestablishment of the Church of England.

From Time Magazine Archive

Contents of about Four Miles Square of Good Land, well Scituated for a Precint: And the Town of Groton hath been Petitioned to Set of ye.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 by Various

Then Violet, she that sang the mournful song, And had a cousin tumbled on the plain, Petitioned too for him.

From The Princess by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

We, in every stage Of these oppressions, have in humblest terms Petitioned for redress.

From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William