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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PETITIONARY

a.Supplicatory; coming with a petition. Pardon thy petitionary countrymen.
1. Containing a petition or request; as a petitionary prayer; a petitionary epistle.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PETITIONARY

PETITIONARY Pe *ti "tion *a *ry, a.

 

1. Supplicatory; making a petition. Pardon Rome, and any petitionary countrymen. Shak.

 

2. Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition; as, a petitionary epistle. Swift.