petitionary

English

Etymology

petition +‎ -ary

Adjective

petitionary (not comparable)

  1. supplicatory; making a petition
    • William Shakespeare
      Pardon Rome, and any petitionary countrymen.
  2. Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition.
    • Jonathan Swift
      a petitionary epistle

Translations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for petitionary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

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