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impetration|ɪmpɪˈtreɪʃən|
[ad. L. impetrātiōn-em obtaining by request, achievement, n. of action from impetrāre: see prec. Perh. in early instances a. AF. impetracioun (1292 in Britton).]
The action of impetrating.
1. The action of obtaining or procuring by request or entreaty. (Chiefly Theol.)
1518Burgh Rec. Edinburgh 10 Dec. (Jam. Suppl.), For the impetracioun of quhatsumeuir priuilege or fredomes thocht to thame profitable. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 162 Impetracyon is y⊇ optaynynge of y⊇ peticyon. 1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace To Rdr. 18 The former part contains the method of grace in the impetration thereof by Jesus Christ. 1854Faber Growth in Holiness xv. (1872) 287 No prayer has such a power of impetration as that which comes from a will conformed to the will of God.
b. Law. The obtaining (of a writ).
a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1683) 292 The said Cardinal did not know the impetration of the said Bulls to have been to the Contempt and Prejudice of the King. 1798in Root Amer. Law Rep. I. 54 That more than three years had elapsed from rendering the judgment complained of, and the date and impetration of the plaintiff's writ.
c. ‘The pre-obtaining of church benefices in England from the court of Rome, which belonged to the gift and disposition of the king, and other lay-patrons of this realm’ (Tomlins Law Dict.).
[1363Act 38 Edw. III, Stat. 11, Aussi des impetracions & provisions, faites en meisme la Courte de Rome, des benefices & offices desglise appertenantz a la donacion..notre dit st. le Roi.] 1484Sc. Acts Jas. III (1814) 166 (Jam.) Anent impetraciouns made in the Court of Rome in contrare our souuerane lordis priuilege. 1494Sc. Acts Jas. IV (1597) §53 The impetration and purchasing at the court of Rome benefices electiue. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. II. 7 That..penalties..should be attached to all impetration of benefices from Rome by purchase or otherwise.
2. Petition, entreaty, supplication, request.
[1292Britton i. xxxii. §23 Par diligentes impetraciouns ad il esté..demaundé; transl. for that by continual claims he has been..demanded.] 1618T. Gainsford Perkin Warbeck in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 64 The king went thither [to Our Lady of Walsingham] for the impetration of prosperity in his affairs, and overthrow and dissipation of his enemies. 1650C. Elderfield Tythes 212 He should..reap some fruit of his own successful impetration. 1798W. Wilberforce Let. to Han. More in Life (1838) II. 301, I have before expressed..my earnest impetration that you would bear in mind [etc.]. 1873B. Gregory Holy Cath. Ch. xvii. 196 Christ's own impetration..‘That they all may be one’..must yet be answered. 1897Maitland in Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. 634 In the letter of ‘impetration’ that he [a litigant in the ecclesiastical courts] sent to Rome he named the persons whose appointment he desired. |