petitionary

English

Etymology

petition +‎ -ary. Doublet of petitioner.

Adjective

petitionary (not comparable)

1. supplicatory; making a petition
   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     I have been blown out of your gates with sighs; and conjure thee to pardon Rome and thy petitionary countrymen.

2. Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition.
   • August 17, 1736, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift

     petitionary epistles

Translations

making a petition

• Bulgarian: умолителен (umolitelen)
• Portuguese: petitório, peticionário (pt)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• opiniatrety