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Petitionary   Listen
adjective
Petitionary  adj.  
1.
Supplicatory; making a petition. "Pardon Rome, and any petitionary countrymen."
2.
Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition; as, a petitionary epistle.





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"Petitionary" Quotes from Famous Books



... mind in which the god is approached is one of supplication or prayer. The regularly recurring occasions are those of seed-time and harvest, or first-fruits. The ceremonies at seed-time obviously admit of the presumption, even if there be no spoken prayers to prove it, that they too have a petitionary purpose; while the recorded instances of the prayers put up at harvest time, and on the occasion of the offering of first-fruits, suffice to show that thanksgiving is made along ...
— The Idea of God in Early Religions • F. B. Jevons
... and the usual instruments of a lady's toilet; but Lady Selina does not choose to have it shown, and it has become invested, in the eyes of the visitors, with no ordinary mystery. Many a petitionary whisper is addressed to the housekeeper on the subject, but in vain; and, consequently, the public too often leave Grey ...
— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope
... supplications—"And now, Lord, will you please excuse me till I gang an' kick that loon Rab, for he'll no' behave himsel'!" So the spiritual exercises were interrupted, and in Alec's belief the universe waited till discipline allowed the petitionary thread ...
— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett


Words linked to "Petitionary" :   beseeching, pleading


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