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Petitionary   Listen
adjective
Petitionary  adj.  
1.
Supplicatory; making a petition. "Pardon Rome, and any petitionary countrymen."
2.
Containing a petition; of the nature of a petition; as, a petitionary epistle.





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... of prayer in Class B merges almost imperceptibly into Class C, where prayer loses its petitionary character, and becomes either a meditation on, or a worship of, God. Meditation is the steady quiet fixing of the mind on God, whereby the lower mind is stilled and presently left vacant, so that the Spirit, escaping from it, rises into contemplation of the divine Perfection, and reflects ...
— Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries • Annie Besant


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