Dictionary 1. (a.) Of or pertaining to Parliament; as, parliamentary authority.2. (a.) Enacted or done by Parliament; as, a parliamentary act. 3. (a.) According to the rules and usages of Parliament or of deliberative bodies; as, a parliamentary motion. Thesaurus absolute aristocratic authoritarian autocratic autonomous bicameral bureaucratic civic civil conforming conformist congressional constitutional deliberative democratic despotic dictatorial fascist federal federalist federalistic formal governmental gubernatorial heteronomous lawmaking legislative legislatorial matriarchal matriarchic monarchal monarchial monarchic monocratic official oligarchal oligarchic ordered orderly parliamentarian patriarchal patriarchic pluralistic political procedural republican self-governing senatorial theocratic totalitarian unicameral |