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parlementary

parlementary adjective: of or relating to a parlement, a provincial appellate court in the Ancien Régime of France.

Adjective

parlementary (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Of or relating to a parlement, a provincial appellate court in the Ancien Régime of France.
    • Until the spring of 1560 the French parlementary system had made strenuous but increasingly futile attempts to suppress the Reformation movement by organized repression of public affirmations of heretical belief and behavior […]1999, E. William Monter, Judging the French Reformation
    • Parrot cries for silence on delicate political issues sounded increasingly archaic – and were quite unable to stem the rising tide of parlementary critique.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 265

Questions about parlementary

What does parlementary mean?
Parlementary means of or relating to a parlement, a provincial appellate court in the Ancien Régime of France.
What part of speech is parlementary?
Parlementary is an adjective.

Words near parlementary in the dictionary

  1. parlayed
  2. parlaying
  3. parlays
  4. parle
  5. parled
  6. parlementary
  7. Parler
  8. parles
  9. Parlett
  10. Parletts
  11. parley

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