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Webster 1913 Edition

adv.

By way of begging the question; by an assumption.

[R.]

Sir T. Browne.

adv.

By way of begging the question.

petitionarily ‎(comparative more petitionarily, superlative most petitionarily)

By way of begging the question; by an assumption.
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