| Impetration 1. (n.) The act of impetrating, or obtaining by petition or entreaty. 2. (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. Thesaurus Entries 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 |