Word Meanings - PETITIONEE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition.

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• CITRANGE
  A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• CITHARISTIC
  Pertaining, or adapted, to the cithara.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• ANSWER
  1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to
• PETITIONARILY
  By way of begging the question; by an assumption. Sir T. Browne.
• CITHARA
  An ancient instrument resembling the harp.
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• CITRIC
  Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon; as, citric acid. Citric acid , an organic acid, C3H4OH. 3, extracted from lemons, currants, gooseberies, etc., as a white crystalline substance, having a pleasant sour taste.
• CITRON
  A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce. 2. A citron tree. 3. A citron melon. Citron melon. A small variety of muskmelon with sugary greenish flesh. A small variety
• CITESS
  A city woman
• CITIZENSHIP
  The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.
• PETITIONEE
  A person cited to answer, or defend against, a petition.
• CITATORY
  Having the power or form of a citation; as, letters citatory.
• DEFENDER
  One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator. Provinces . . . left without their ancient and puissant defenders. Motley.
• PERSONAL
  Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property,
• PERSONIFY
  1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.
• APOSTOLICISM; APOSTOLICITY
  The state or quality of being apostolical.
• OPACITY
  1. The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency; opaqueness. 2. Obscurity; want of clearness. Bp. Hall.
• ELICITATION
  The act of eliciting. Abp. Bramhall.
• IMPUDICITY
  Immodesty. Sheldon.
• RECAPACITATE
  To qualify again; to confer capacity on again. Atterbury.
• HYGROSCOPICITY
  The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.
• LEUCITE
  A mineral having a glassy fracture, occurring in translucent trapezohedral crystals. It is a silicate of alumina and potash. It is found in the volcanic rocks of Italy, especially at Vesuvius.
• ECCENTRICITY
  The ratio of the distance between the center and the focus of an ellipse or hyperbola to its semi-transverse axis. (more info) 1. The state of being eccentric; deviation from the customary line of conduct; oddity.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• RESUSCITANT
  One who, or that which resuscitates. Also used adjectively.
• ASCITITIOUS
  Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed. Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. Pope.
• PYROCITRIC
  Pertaining to, or designating, any one of three acids obtained by the distillation of citric acid, and called respectively citraconic, itaconic, and mesaconic acid.
• FERROCALCITE
  Limestone containing a large percentage of iron carbonate, and hence turning brown on exposure.
• SCITAMINEOUS
  Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants , mostly tropical herbs, including the ginger, Indian shot, banana, and the plants producing turmeric and arrowroot.
• AUTHENTICITY
  1. The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness. 2. Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original. Note: In later writers, especially those on the evidences of Christianity,
• PHYCITE
  See 1
• FEROCITY
  Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.