The petitionary procedure had a quality of indecisiveness.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

I don’t believe in petitionary or intercessory prayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just Like A Prayer | Her Bad Mother] Reference

And as go wishes, so go petitionary and intercessory prayers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just Like A Prayer | Her Bad Mother] Reference

Daryl Herbert, your comments on petitionary prayer are very interesting.    From Wordnik.com.  ["A cloned human would be imbued with the same immaterial presence that binds us all, even Antonin Scalia, to the Godhead."] Reference

Then, there is another aspect of petitionary prayer which demands a passing notice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference

On the first point: through petitionary prayer we receive many things which we do not merit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas] Reference

Much of their praying consisted of reciting the Yiddish petitionary prayers, called tkhines.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poland: Early Modern (1500-1795).] Reference

If he does win, I promise not to use his success as evidence of the value of petitionary prayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [BCA v Singh: Date Set For First Hearing] Reference

Do its requests represent the best modern conception of prayer as an inward aspiration rather than as petitionary?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mistakes of Jesus] Reference

The techniques used included ALCHEMY, ASCETICISM, health and dietary rules, a Chinese FORM of YOGA, MAGIC, petitionary PRAYER and the WORSHIP of powerful deities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concise Dictionary of Religion] Reference

Sagan reserved particular scorn for petitionary prayer, which by its very utterance renders God's qualities of omnipotence, omniscience and benevolence mutually contradictory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unbeliever's Quest] Reference

Would not this apply against all petitionary prayer?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Remains, Volume 2] Reference

I am not talking here purely from a petitionary stance.    From Wordnik.com.  [open source theology - collaborative theology for the emerging church] Reference

The word signifies such prayers as are properly petitionary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)] Reference

Nay, I prithee now with most petitionary vehemence, tell me who it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [As You Like It] Reference

Nay, I prithee now, with most petitionary vehemence, tell me who it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Act III. Scene II. As You Like It] Reference

And while she hesitated, from the room above came the soft, racking, petitionary music of a violin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strictly business: more stories of the four million] Reference

He was huge as the hyperborean bear, and cruel looking, and with a sort of apologetic petitionary growl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across China on Foot] Reference

You will doubtless be surprised at receiving a petitionary letter from a perfect stranger, but, Fas est vel ab hoste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey]

Differing philosophies of R'YBS, R'Yeshaya Leibowitz and R'Buber on the centrality/effectiveness of petitionary prayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hirhurim - Musings] Reference

Mr. Decker could not resist the petitionary grace of those white hands and that sensitive mouth, and took her to his arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Argonauts] Reference

After a few feeling remarks by the Moderator, accepting the position, he called for petitionary letters -- none were offered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minutes of the Proceedings of the Ten Islands Baptist Association. Held with the Church at Post Oak Spring, Calhoun County, Alabama, on the 26th, 27th and 28th Days of September, 1863] Reference

When the coach had come to a standstill, he opened the door with as little creaking as might be, and held out a petitionary hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Audrey] Reference

Sometimes people pray petitionary prayers and what they asked for in prayer happens (call this a 'satiation' of the prayer request).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prosblogion] Reference

It was then that you entreated me, with "most petitionary vehemence," to write you a book -- a big book -- thick, and all for yourself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered)] Reference

864: Dazle the world with Iewels, and petitionary people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Revenger's Tragedy] Reference

In a petitionary kind almost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Laws of Candy Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10)] Reference

But petitionary prayer is not worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [blog.kennypearce.net] Reference

You see, our prayers are rarely petitionary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry]

Or petitionary prayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paris Project] Reference

3311: Rome, and thy petitionary Countrimen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coriolanus (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference

Nay, I pre'thee now, with most petitionary ve-hemence.    From Wordnik.com.  [As You Like It (1623 First Folio Edition)] Reference