petitionary Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite of the nature of or expressing a petition
    • the petitionary procedure had a quality of indecisiveness

WordNet

Pe*ti"tion*a*ry adjective
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913