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Definition of Impeded
1. Adjective. Made difficult or slow. "We blamed our impeded progress on lack of money"
Definition of Impeded
1. Verb. (past of impede) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impeded
1. impede [v] - See also: impede
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impeded
Literary usage of Impeded
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis (1881)
"His March impeded.—Difficulty in collecting Troops to oppose him.—The Line of
the Salkehatchie.—Route of the Enemy's Advance.—Evacuation of Columbia. ..."
2. Three Expeditions Into the Interior of Eastern Australia: With Descriptions by Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1839)
"One gully only had impeded our carts. It was about a mile short of the encampment,
and it was called " Goora" by the natives. It bad evidently been long ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to 1900 by George Smith, Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1897)
"... that he was impeded in his schemes for her advancement by the morbid jealousy
of Mrs. Yates and Miss Younge, against whom he wished to play her ofi. ..."
4. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1837)
"... executive government, of which they formed a part, and gave a vigour to its
movements, which the jealousy of the councils would possibly have impeded. ..."
5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"The charges and specifications do not even suggest that the regular course of
justice has ever been once impeded. All that they pretend is that the acts ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace, Charles George Herbermann (1922)
"... church or at least in the same diocese a prebendary similarly impeded the
cathedral chapter appoints its continuous faithful attendance at choir in the ..."
7. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1854)
"... the march of liberal principles shall be impeded, the responsibility for that
result, as well as every other, will rest on her own head. ..."
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