impetrate

present singular third person impetrates · participle present impetrating · participle past impetrated · past impetrated

1. transitiveTo obtain by asking; to procure upon request.
2. transitiveTo ask for, demand.

   On the cross He redeemed us with His Blood; on the altar He intercedes or impetrates that we may individually have part in that redemption.

   1853, Andrew Kim, The Catholic Missionary, volume III

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   But he that would illustrate this, should distinguish between this salvation, already impetrated or obtained, and salvation about to be impetrated; or between salvation, and the promise of salvation […]

   1798, Herman Witsius, The Oeconomy of the Covenants, volume III

   A slight testimonial, sir, which I thought fit to impetrate from that worthy nobleman, (here he raised his hand to his head, as if to touch his hat,) MacCallum-more.

   1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, pages 198–199

   It is striking that the majority of these documents were issued when Dominic was present in the curia, and it is reasonable to suppose that he took a personal interest in impetrating them.

   2004, Patrick Zutshi, “Letters of Pope Honorius III”, in Pope, Church and City

1. obsoleteImpetrated.

   If the one were impetrate after the other , and the suits made by one man , it is hard to think that one man , being instructed in the suit for both , would put the dispensation of less moment in a bull[…]

   1649, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Raigne of King Henry VIII

2. obsoleteObtained by entreaty.