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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



... number of letters which were at this time addressed to the First Consul is scarcely conceivable. They contained requests for places, protestations of fidelity, and, in short, they were those petitionary circulars that are addressed to all persons in power. These letters were often exceedingly curious, and I have preserved many of them; among the rest was one from Durosel Beaumanoir, an emigrant ...
— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne


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