| Petitionary 1. (a.) Supplicatory; making a petition. 2. (a.) Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition; as, a petitionary epistle. Thesaurus Entries adjuratory, appealing, beggary, beseeching, bumming, cadging, entreating, imploring, mendicancy, mendicant, mendicity, mooching, panhandling, petitionary, pleading, prayerful, precative, precatory, scrounging, suppliant, supplicant, supplicating, supplicatory |