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peˈtitionarily, adv. rare. [f. next + -ly2.] In a petitionary manner: (in quot. 1646) by way of petitio principii or unproved assumption.
1604Supplic. Masse Priests §1 Ever lowelie to solicite, yea petitionarily to importunate your Maiestie, for the happy grant of so manifold, farre-spreading..a blessednesse. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. v. 191 This doth but petitionarily inferre a dextrality in the heavens. |