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Definition of Impetrate
1. a. Obtained by entreaty.
2. v. t. To obtain by request or entreaty.
Definition of Impetrate
1. Verb. (transitive) To obtain (something) by asking for it; to procure upon request. ¹
2. Adjective. (obsolete) obtained by asking for it ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impetrate
1. [v -TRATED, -TRATING, -TRATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impetrate
Literary usage of Impetrate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett, David Jardine (1809)
"If it were impetrate at the instance of your highness, and of the queen's grace,
no cause is why it should be sent into Spain to ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1854)
"Thus he gives us one meaning of to obtain, “ to impetrate,” and “ to impetrate ‘
is to obtain by entreaty, a means of obtaining most assuredly not included ..."
3. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet (1829)
"... have not e're this advertised the same, of such bulls as your majesty willed
me to impetrate here; I thought verily, that forasmuch as the same be to be ..."
4. The Records of the Proceedings of the Justiciary Court, Edinburgh, 1661-1678 by Edinburgh (Scotland). Justiciary Court, William George Scott-Moncrieff, John W. Weston (1905)
"... and the truth of them being quarrelled as being impetrate, the granters did
own the truth of them to the Clerk of the Kirk Session who was ordered by ..."
5. Lean's Collectanea by Vincent Stuckey Lean, Julia Lucy Woodward (1903)
"impetrate, v. To obtain by entreaty. ... The Kynges selfes doe not at all seasons
impetrate of the people that they would have by ..."
6. Notes on the Surnames of Francus, Franceis, French, Etc. in Scotland: With by Aaron Davis Weld French (1893)
"... and the remainder of the persons that were upon the serving of a brief of
inquest impetrate by George Roule by the decease of George Roule, his father, ..."
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