† petitionarilyadv.
Obsolete. rare.
1. By way of a petition.
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the mind > language > speech > request > [adverb]
suppliantly1565
beggingly1598
petitionarily1604
askingly1611
supplicantly1629
supplicatorilya1631
eucticallya1638
begging-wise1645
precariously1646
earn1656
entreatingly1661
suppliant-like1670
supplicatingly1799
imploringly1810
beseechingly1830
pleadingly1838
appealingly1847
beggarly1850
precatively1869
1604 Supplic. Certaine Masse-priests §1 Ever lowelie to solicite, yea petitionarily to importunate your Maiestie, for the happy grant of so manifold, farre-spreading..a blessednesse.
2. By way of petitio principii; by begging the question.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [adverb] > by way of unproved assumption
petitionarily1646
precariously1658
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. v. 191 This doth but petitionarily inferre a dextrality in the heavens. View more context for this quotation
1846 A. Spiers Gen. Eng. & French Dict. 435/1 Petitionarily,..3. par une pétition de principe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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