impetration

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: im=pe=tra=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

impetration, n. [L. impetratio: cf. F. impétration.].

•  The act of impetrating, or obtaining by petition or entreaty.  [1913 Webster]

  "In way of impertation procuring the removal or allevation of our crosses."  [1913 Webster]
•  The obtaining of benefice from Rome by solicitation, which benefice belonged to the disposal of the king or other lay patron of the realm.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

impetration

Request

N request, requisition, claim, petition, suit, prayer, begging letter, round robin, motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal, apostrophe, imprecation, rogation, proposal, proposition, orison, incantation, mendicancy, asking, begging, postulation, solicitation, invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration, imploration, obsecration, obtestation, invocation, interpellation, requesting, precatory, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, postulant, obsecratory, importunate, clamorous, urgent, cap in hand, on one's knees, on one's bended knees, on one's marrowbones, prithee, do, please, pray, be so good as, be good enough, have the goodness, vouchsafe, will you, I pray thee, if you please, Int, for God's sake!, for heaven's sake!, for goodness' sake!, for mercy's sake!, Dieu vous garde, dirigenos Domine, would you be so kind as to.