Impetration

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The act of impetrating, or obtaining by petition or entreaty.
  • n. The obtaining of benefice from Rome by solicitation, which benefice belonged to the disposal of the king or other lay patron of the realm.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of impetrating, or obtaining by petition or entreaty.
  • n. The obtaining of benefice from Rome by solicitation, which benefice belonged to the disposal of the king or other lay patron of the realm.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of impetrating or obtaining by prayer or petition; procurement; specifically, in old English statutes, the procurement from the court of Rome of benefices and church offices in England which by law belonged to the disposition of the king and other lay patrons.
  • Word Usage
    "So chap.v. 18, “By the righteousness of one” (that is, his impetration), “the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life,” in the application."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    asking