Court of Requests. (a) A local tribunal, sometimes called Court of Consience, founded by act of Parliament to facilitate the recovery of small debts from any inhabitant or trader in the district defined by the act; — now mostly abolished. (b) A court of equity for the relief of such persons as addressed the sovereign by supplication; — now abolished. It was inferior to the Court of Chancery. [Eng.] Brande & C.

Syn. — Asking; solicitation; petition; prayer; supplication; entreaty; suit.

Request
(Re*quest") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Requested; p. pr. & vb. n. Requesting.] [Cf. OF. requester, F. requêter.]

4. Account; value. [Obs.] Chaucer.

[/Christ] made himself of no reputation.
Phil. ii. 7.

Syn. — Credit; repute; regard; estimation; esteem; honor; fame. See the Note under Character.

Reputatively
(Re*put"a*tive*ly) adv. By repute.

Repute
(Re*pute") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reputed; p. pr. & vb. n. Reputing.] [F. réputer, L. reputare to count over, think over; pref. re- re- + putare to count, think. See Putative.] To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon.

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
Job xviii. 3.

The king your father was reputed for
A prince most prudent.
Shak.

Repute
(Re*pute"), n.

1. Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good or bad; established opinion; public estimate.

He who regns
Monarch in heaven, till then as one secure
Sat on his throne, upheld by old repute.
Milton.

2. Specifically: Good character or reputation; credit or honor derived from common or public opinion; — opposed to disrepute. "Dead stocks, which have been of repute." F. Beaumont.

Reputedly
(Re*put"ed*ly) adv. In common opinion or estimation; by repute.

Reputeless
(Re*pute"less), a. Not having good repute; disreputable; disgraceful; inglorius. [R.] Shak.

Requere
(Re*quere") v. t. To require. [Obs.]

Request
(Re*quest") n. [OE. requeste, OF. requeste, F. requête, LL. requesta, for requisita, fr. L. requirere, requisitum, to seek again, ask for. See Require, and cf. Quest.]

1. The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.

I will marry her, sir, at your request.
Shak.

2. That which is asked for or requested. "He gave them their request." Ps. cvi. 15.

I will both hear and grant you your requests.
Shak.

3. A state of being desired or held in such estimation as to be sought after or asked for; demand.

Knowledge and fame were in as great request as wealth among us now.
Sir W. Temple.


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