impetration

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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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. 
    

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