What is "impedimenta"

Usage examples of "impedimenta".

Compluribus diebus isdem in castris consumptis, cum propius accessisse legiones et Gaium Trebonium legatum cognossent, duces Bellovacorum veriti similem obsessionem Alesiae noctu dimittunt eos quos aut aetate aut viribus inferiores aut inermes habebant, unaque reliqua impedimenta.

They died within three weeks of each other, and his mother inherited a houseful of Waterford glassware, Belleek china and other household impedimenta.

I drew my other leg inside and slid down the smooth glass to the bottom of the sphere, then turned to take the cans of food and other impedimenta from Cavor.

At tanta militum virtus atque ea praesentia animi fuit, ut, cum undique flamma torrerentur maximaque telorum multitudine premerentur suaque omnia impedimenta atque omnes fortunas conflagrare intellegerent, non modo demigrandi causa de vallo decederet nemo, sed paene ne respiceret quidem quisquam, ac tum omnes acerrime fortissimeque pugnarent.

Years of living in bedsits have taught him that ironing-boards and the other impedimenta of housework are the product of little minds intent in filling the days of more creative souls with pointless rituals.

William dealt with their luggage, Mrs Turner bore the tea tray into the sitting room and relieved Judith of the impedimenta with which Lady Cres swell found it necessary to travel, and Charles Cres swell installed his mother in a high-backed chair while Judith poured her a cup of tea.

One of the dromedaries would carry a bale containing the sorcerer's most valuable books, manuscripts, and other impedimenta of magic.

I learned everything anyone would ever want to know about the art of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches and the lost-wax process of casting holy impedimenta in gold and silver and bronze.

When they rode into the bawn seconds later, they were met by the sight of Christian de Guevain, a Paris-based merchant banker who shared Fitzduane's interest in medieval weaponry-de Guevain's specialty being the longbow-getting out of a taxi festooned with fishing rods and other impedimenta.

No longer were spare corners filled with prams, cartons of disposable nappies and the other impedimenta of babyhood.

Tools optimized for Molt hands, crates, a coil of fencing, and other impedimenta were stacked around the walls, but the two square meters in the center of the shed were clear.

Toward the rear were two easels, a high stool, and a library table covered with the impedimenta of painting: tubes of color, water glasses full of slender brushes, rags, palette knives.

The impedimenta of portfolios and sketch pads surrounding the drinkers betrays their calling.

She described the impedimenta that were put out on a side table before the operationa full bottle of hyoscine solution, an ampoule of anti-gas serum, syringes, a bowl of distilled water.