Impetration

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impetration \Im`pe*tra"tion\, n. [L. impetratio: cf. F.
     imp['e]tration.]
     1. The act of impetrating, or obtaining by petition or
        entreaty. [Obs.]
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              In way of impertation procuring the removal or
              allevation of our crosses.            --Barrow.
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     2. (Old Eng. Law) The obtaining of benefice from Rome by
        solicitation, which benefice belonged to the disposal of
        the king or other lay patron of the realm.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "impetration":
     Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster,
     address, aid prayer, appeal, application, asking, beadroll, beads,
     beseechment, bidding prayer, breviary, chaplet, collect, communion,
     contemplation, demand, desire, devotions, entreaty,
     expressed desire, grace, imploration, indent, intercession,
     invocation, litany, meditation, obsecration, obtestation, orison,
     petition, prayer, prayer wheel, request, requisition, rogation,
     rosary, silent prayer, suit, supplication, thanks, thanksgiving,
     wish
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  IMPETRATION. The obtaining anything by prayer or petition. In the ancient 
  English statutes, it signifies a pre-obtaining of church benefices in 
  England from the church of Rome, which belonged to the gift of the king, or 
  other lay patrons.