"percontative" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1849, Herman Melville, Mardi II (1922 reprint), page 285",
          "text": "‘Perfect Dicibles are of various sorts: Interrogative; Percontative; Adjurative; Optative; Imprecative; Execrative; Substitutive; Compellative; Hypothetical; and, lastly, Dubious.’"
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          "ref": "1960, Raymond Queneau [aut.] (+ unknown tr.), Zazie, page 128",
          "text": "Destined for internal consumption, these three words nevertheless provoked the reply which you see here: who doesn’t? With an interrogation point, for the reply was percontative."
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        "That is, expressed in, or having the character of the grammatical mood (mode) of rhetorical questioning; percontatorial."
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        "(grammar, rare) That is, expressed in, or having the character of the grammatical mood (mode) of rhetorical questioning; percontatorial."
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          "word": "punctus percontativus"
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