Hypertext Webster Gateway: "petitionary"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Petitionary \Pe*ti"tion*a*ry\, a.
1. Supplicatory; making a petition.

Pardon Rome, and any petitionary countrymen. --Shak.

2. Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition; as, a
petitionary epistle. --Swift.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

petitionary
adj : of the nature of or expressing a petition; "the petitionary
procedure had a quality of indecisiveness"

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