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Definition of Impediment
1. Noun. Something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress.
Generic synonyms: Difficulty
Specialized synonyms: Albatross, Millstone, Bind, Diriment Impediment, Drag, Obstacle, Obstruction, Straitjacket
Derivative terms: Deter, Deterrent, Handicap, Hinder, Impede
2. Noun. Any structure that makes progress difficult.
Specialized synonyms: Bar, Barrier, Blockade, Block, Blockage, Closure, Occlusion, Stop, Stoppage, Encumbrance, Hinderance, Hindrance, Hitch, Incumbrance, Interference, Preventative, Preventive, Obstacle, Tumbler
Generic synonyms: Construction, Structure
Derivative terms: Impede, Obstruct, Obstruct
Definition of Impediment
1. n. That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.
2. v. t. To impede.
Definition of Impediment
1. Noun. A hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress. ¹
2. Noun. (chiefly plural) Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impediment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impediment
Literary usage of Impediment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Marriage between the persons affected by this impediment, as described below,
... Traces of this impediment are found under another name in Roman law, ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Although by no means uniform, the extension of the impediment was generally made
to the third degree of canonical computation. With the theory prevailing in ..."
3. The New Church Law on Matrimony by Joseph Julius Charles Petrovits, Catholic Church (1919)
"impediment OF MIXED RELIGION 113 1. NATURE OF THE impediment 113 2. ... impediment OF
CRIME 206 IX. impediment OF CONSANGUINITY 222 1. ..."
4. A View of the Art of Colonization: With Present Reference to the British by Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1849)
"But there remains to be noticed at present one other impediment, ... HITHERTO in
treating of an impediment to colonization, I have attended only to the ..."
5. The Laws of Marriage: Containing the Hebrew Law, the Roman Law, the Law of by John Fulton (1883)
"A natural malformation of the woman which renders her incapable of conjugal
intercourse, and which cannot be cured by medical art, is a just impediment of ..."
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