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