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▪ I. † ˈimpetrate, ppl. a. Obs.
Also Sc. -at.
[ad. L. impetrāt-us, pa. pple. of impetrāre: see next.]
Obtained by request, esp. by application to an authority; impetrated. (Const. chiefly as pa. pple.)
1528Gardiner in Pocock Rec. Ref. I. l. 103 The said Commission might be, by an inhibition impetrate on like fashion, frustrate and letted. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 89 Gif the breive is impetrat, and raised..the assise sall proceid. c1674Acc. Scotland's Grievances under Lauderdale 24 Personal protections to debtors were most abusively impetrate. 1721–2Wodrow Hist. Suffer. Ch. Scot. (1828) I. i. ii. 241 This was not the deed of Scotland but impetrate at London.
▪ II. impetrate, v.|ˈɪmpɪtreɪt|
[f. L. impetrāt-, ppl. stem of impetrāre to obtain by request or exertion, to procure, effect; f. im- (im-1) + patrāre to bring to pass, accomplish, achieve.]
1. trans. To obtain by request or entreaty; to procure. Now chiefly Theol. (also in Rom. Law).
1533–4Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 14 The clergy..did impetrate and obteine by auctorite of parliament..that it shulde be lefull [etc.]. 1550J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds §61 (1877) 76 To impetrate a saulfconducte for hym. 1651C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 214 Good workes, which hee calles Merits, because they doe impetrate or obtaine a reward. 1692Covt. Grace Conditional 5 That the Price paid by Christ..did fully impetrate, merit and purchase at the Fathers hands, the perfect and compleat Redemption of his Elect. 1862Goulburn Pers. Relig. v. ii. (1873) 85 Powerful..to impetrate from Him the highest blessings. 1880Muirhead Gaius Digest 493 A conveyance he had impetrated by fraudulent representations.
absol.a1643J. Shute Judgem. & Mercy (1645) 192 Chrysostome sticks not to say that good works have the place of prayer with God, and impetrate.
†b. To bring to pass, procure, effect. Obs.
1647Ward Simp. Cobler (1843) 71 Me thinks it should impetrate a Royall Redintegration.
2. To entreat, request, beseech, ask for. Now rare.
c1565Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (1728) 46 To come straight to thy Clemency to impetrate Pardon for my Offence. 1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋80 It is to be impetrated of God alone, that he would vouchsafe [etc.]. 1681–6J. Scott Chr. Life (1747) III. 5 To act on the Part of the Subject, in impetrating the Superior's Favour and Protection. 1818Scott Rob Roy ix, A slight testimonial, sir, which I thought fit to impetrate from that worthy nobleman..MacCallum More. 1891R. W. Dixon Hist. Ch. Eng. IV. 369 Application was made..for a prolongation of his life: which the Earl of Derby impetrated on his knees to the Queen.
b. To entreat or beseech (a person, etc.).
1881F. G. Lee R. Barentyne viii. 103 Then we impetrate Fate, and abide our lot. |