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Request

noun

A formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority. Synonyms: petition, postulation.

The verbal act of requesting. Synonym: asking.

verb

(past & past part. requested; pres. part. requesting)

Express the need or desire for; ask for. Synonyms: bespeak, call for, quest. "She called for room service"

Ask (a person) to do something. "I requested that she type the entire manuscript"

Inquire for (information).

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... the cause of Denominational Education. His scheme was much the same as that now[3] adopted by the Government—the concurrent endowment of all denominational schools; which, as he remarked, would practically come to mean those of the Anglicans, the Romans, and the Wesleyans. In compliance with his request, I presented myself at that barrack-like building off the Vauxhall Bridge Road, which was formerly the Guards' Institute, and is now the Archbishop's House. Of course, I had long been familiar with the Cardinal's shrunken form and finely-cut features, and that extraordinary dignity of bearing which ...

— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell

... unladen. When expressed of the officers or crew, it implies that they are disbanded from immediate service; and in individual cases, that the person is dismissed in consequence of long service, disability, or at his own request. When spoken of cannon, it means that it is ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... book-thief hesitates at no class of book. But would he draw the line at stealing a book which deals with thieves? The late Charles Reade appears to have thought that he would not, for he has inscribed not only his name, but the following somewhat plaintive request, 'Please not to steal this book; I value it,' in a volume which Mr. Menken once possessed. The book in question is entitled 'Inventaire general de L'Histoire des Larrons,' Rouen, 1657. This singular work gives at length the stratagems, ...

— The Book-Hunter in London - Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting • William Roberts

... request patiently, and when he was gone, Catherine averted her face for the space of a minute. What she had hoped for came to pass, and when Algernon returned, his small brother had quietly vanished. "The older ...

— The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted • Katharine Ellis Barrett

... His request gave me a shock of surprise, which was forthwith repressed on reflection: 'I give algebra lessons?' said I to myself. 'It would be madness: I don't know ...

— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre

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