Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IM-PE-TRA'TION
IM-PE-TRA'TION, n.
- The act of obtaining by prayer or petition. Herbert.
- In law, the pre-obtaining of benefices from the church of Rome, which belonged to the disposal of the king and other lay patrons of the realm. Encyc.
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