Crossword clues for impediment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impediment \Im*ped"i*ment\, n. [L. impedimentum: cf. F. impediment.] That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.
Thus far into the bowels of the land
Have we marched on without impediment.
--Shak.
Impediment in speech, a defect which prevents distinct utterance.
Syn: Hindrance; obstruction; obstacle; difficulty; incumbrance.
Usage: Impediment, Obstacle, Difficulty, Hindrance. An impediment literally strikes against our feet, checking our progress, and we remove it. An obstacle rises before us in our path, and we surmount or remove it. A difficulty sets before us something hard to be done, and we encounter it and overcome it. A hindrance holds us back for a time, but we break away from it.
The eloquence of Demosthenes was to Philip of
Macedon, a difficulty to be met with his best
resources, an obstacle to his own ambition, and
an impediment in his political career.
--C. J.
Smith.
Impediment \Im*ped"i*ment\, v. t.
To impede. [R.]
--Bp. Reynolds.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress.
WordNet
n. something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress [syn: hindrance, deterrent, balk, baulk, check, handicap]
any structure that makes progress difficult [syn: obstruction, obstructor, obstructer, impedimenta]
Wikipedia
In the Canon Law of the Catholic Church, an impediment is a legal obstacle that prevents a sacrament from being performed validly and/or licitly. The term is used most frequently in relationship to the sacraments of Marriage and Holy Orders. Some canonical impediments can be dispensed by the competent authority (usually the local ordinary but some impediments are reserved to the Apostolic See) as defined in Canon Law.
Usage examples of "impediment".
Pukpuk only as a minor impediment in the background, and had failed completely to observe the very obvious signs of jealousy displayed by his small companion, or the ferocity with which he gnawed his catnip and bristled his red eyebrows.
John noticed that she took the offered hand of Denbigh to assist her over any little impediment in their course, instead of her usual unobtrusive custom of taking his arm on such occasions.
One mystery is how it erupted suddenly, all over, in places separated by oceans, mountain ranges, and other earthly impediments.
When the colon is distended, it becomes a mechanical impediment to the free circulation of the blood in other organs, and causes congestion of the portal system, predisposing to chronic inflammation or cirrhosis of the liver.
Then her skill with pencil, with paints, would have been a cause for celebration instead of an impediment toward liaisons with men.
Thirdly, for removing sins which are the impediments to both of these things, according to Heb.
But this impediment is removed by Penance, inasmuch as sins are taken away thereby.
Thursday, 18870811:2024 The queen rode astride the horizontally oriented ornvis, her blue silks no impediment to the anchor despite the copious slips and underfittings.
Spear, not knowing what else to do in the strange country, trotted after the rest of the marchers, picking up sacks and pieces of equipment and weapons they dropped in their mindless flight until he needs must walk, so burdened down was he become with impediments.
She praised the presence of mind with which I had invented an impediment, but she did not give me an opportunity of proving to her that I had deceived the duchess.
To attain this end, are you justified in overleaping an obstacle of custom -- a mere conventional impediment which neither your conscience sanctifies nor your judgment approves?
If in his judgment it throws any light on one of the deeper mysteries of our nature,--the repulsions which play such a formidable part in social life, and which must be recognized as the correlatives of the affinities that distribute the individuals governed by them in the face of impediments which seem to be impossibilities,--then it may be freely given to the world.
Since it must needs be of great Impediment unto the Growth of Sciences, for Men still to Plod on upon beaten Principles, as to be afraid of entertaining any thing that may seem to contradict them.
When Calliope surfaces, she does so like a childhood speech impediment.
If you desire to be mine entirely, and if you feel the hope of it, which, according to your way of reasoning, is a natural consequence, why do you always raise an impediment to your own hope?