Word Meanings - PETITIONARILY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

By way of begging the question; by an assumption. Sir T. Browne.

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• BEGGARLY
  1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9. 2. Produced
• QUESTIONIST
  A candidate for honors or degrees who is near the time of his examination. (more info) 1. A questioner; an inquirer.
• QUESTIONABLENESS
  The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.
• BEGGAR
  1. One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner. 2. One who makes it his business to ask alms. 3. One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use. 4. One who assumes in argument
• BEGGAR'S TICKS
  The bur marigold and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.
• QUESTION
  1. The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer. 2. Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question. There arose a question between some
• BEGGABLE
  Capable of being begged.
• BEGGAR'S LICE
  The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them.
• BEGGESTERE
  A beggar. Chaucer.
• QUESTIONNAIRE
  = Questionary, above.
• QUESTIONLESS
  Unquestioning; incurious.
• QUESTIONABLY
  In a questionable manner.
• BEGGARLINESS
  The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.
• QUESTIONER
  One who asks questions; an inquirer. "Little time for idle questioners." Tennyson.
• QUESTIONABILITY
  The state or condition of being questionable. Stallo.
• ASSUMPTION
  The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism. 5. The taking of a person up into heaven. Hence: (Rom. Cath. & Greek Churches) (more info) 1. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. The
• QUESTIONARY
  Inquiring; asking questions; testing. "Questionary epistles." Pope.
• BEGGARISM
  Beggary.
• BEGGARHOOD
  The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars.
• QUESTIONABLE
  1. Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry. Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. Shak. 2. Liable to question; subject to be doubted or called in question; problematical; doubtful;
• BULLBEGGAR
  Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort .
• ABEGGE
  See CHAUCER
• UNQUESTIONABLE
  1. Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title. 2. Not inviting questions or conversation. Shak. -- Un*ques"tion*a*bly, adv.
• UNQUESTIONED
  1. Not called in question; not doubted. 2. Not interrogated; having no questions asked; not examined or examined into. Shak. She muttering prayers, as holy rites she meant, Through the divided crowd unquestioned went. Dryden. 3. Indisputable; not
• CROSS-QUESTION
  To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.