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- adjective obsolete Given to or
characterised by the asking ofquestions , especially open-ended ones (percontations ).
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First attested in 1853; formed as the Latin percontāt- (the perfect active participial stem of percontor, “I inquire”, “I interrogate”; also the perfect passive participial stem of its by-form, percontō) + the English -orial (= -ory + -al).
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