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Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament. examples
Having the supreme executive and legislative power resting with a cabinet of ministers chosen from, and responsible to a parliament. examples
(Britain, historical, railways) Of a class of train which, by an act of parliament, ran both ways along a line, at least once each day, at the rate of one penny per mile. quotations
The train was moving less fast through the summer night. The swift express had changed into something almost a parliamentary, had stopped three times since Norwich, and now, at long last, was approaching Banton.
1931, Francis Beeding, “1/1”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps
plural parliamentaries
(UK, historical) A parliamentary train.