The Collaborative International Dictionary
Petitionary \Pe*ti"tion*a*ry\, a.
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Supplicatory; making a petition.
Pardon Rome, and any petitionary countrymen.
--Shak. Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition; as, a petitionary epistle.
--Swift.
Wiktionary
a. 1 supplicatory; making a petition 2 Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition.
WordNet
adj. of the nature of or expressing a petition; "the petitionary procedure had a quality of indecisiveness"
Usage examples of "petitionary".
His continuing to stand puts Eccles in a petitionary position, sitting on the bench like a choirboy.
They contained requests for places, protestations of fidelity, and, in short, they were those petitionary circulars that are addressed to all persons in power.
What petitionary prayers there were, were for the land of Israel and for the Jewish nation as a whole.
Conversely, the State may revoke an improvident grant of the public petitionary without recourse to the power of eminent domain, such a grant being inherently beyond the power of the State to make.