parlementary

English

Adjective

parlementary (not comparable)

1. (historical) Of or relating to a parlement, a provincial appellate court in the Ancien Régime of France.
   • 1999, E. William Monter, Judging the French Reformation:

     Until the spring of 1560 the French parlementary system had made strenuous but increasingly futile attempts to suppress the Reformation movement by organized repression of public affirmations of heretical belief and behavior […]

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 265:

     Parrot cries for silence on delicate political issues sounded increasingly archaic – and were quite unable to stem the rising tide of parlementary critique.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with parliamentary.