Crossword clues for impeached
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impeach \Im*peach"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impeached; p. pr. & vb. n. Impeaching.] [OE. empeechier to prevent, hinder, bar, F. emp[^e]cher, L. impedicare to entangle; pref. im- in + pedica fetter, fr. pes, pedis, foot. See Foot, and Appeach, Dispatch, Impede.]
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To hinder; to impede; to prevent. [Obs.]
These ungracious practices of his sons did impeach his journey to the Holy Land.
--Sir J. Davies.A defluxion on my throat impeached my utterance.
--Howell. To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgment of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment.
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Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct.
And doth impeach the freedom of the state.
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(Law) To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper.
Note: When used in law with reference to a witness, the term signifies, to discredit, to show or prove unreliable or unworthy of belief; when used in reference to the credit of witness, the term denotes, to impair, to lessen, to disparage, to destroy. The credit of a witness may be impeached by showing that he has made statements out of court contradictory to what he swears at the trial, or by showing that his reputation for veracity is bad, etc.
Syn: To accuse; arraign; censure; criminate; indict; impair; disparage; discredit. See Accuse.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: impeach)
Usage examples of "impeached".
He would permit Miller, as author of the top-priority measure, to read out to his assembled colleagues and the gallery, “Resolved, that Douglass Dilman, President of the United States, be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanors in office.
Then the person being impeached can have a defense, can retain a staff of attorneys—managers, they are called—to combat the charges of the House managers.
The legislator who was impeached, Senator Blount, was not actually tried but was expelled from the Senate, because it was determined that a congressman was not strictly a civil officer.
Eight were impeached, eight were merely censured, twenty-two were acquitted, and seventeen simply resigned their offices and put an end to the proceedings.
Then he knew that there would not be one caption to every photograph, but two, and with cynical amusement he wrote the alternate captions in his head: (A) “The grim and embittered President, shown minutes before learning he was impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors by a majority of the House”.
I’ve been impeached—that’s an awful thing—the second President ever to be impeached for crimes, existent or nonexistent.
Young fellow, you remember this: old Andrew Johnson got impeached by the House, but there was no twothirds against him in the Senate, and contradicting the asinine House, the Senate set Andrew Johnson free.
The House impeached your bumbling friend, and the Senate will convict him.
So he was impeached as a traitor, on a great number of charges, but chiefly on accusations of having aided the French King, and of designing to make his own son King of England.
Successful against this small game, it then mounted to the Duke himself, who was impeached by his brother the King, in person, on a variety of such charges.
On these and other accusations, at any rate, he was confined in the Tower, impeached, and found guilty.
Pym, in the House of Commons, and with great solemnity, impeached the Earl of Strafford as a traitor.
So unjustly bitter were they, I grieve to say, that they impeached the venerable Lord Stafford, a Catholic nobleman seventy years old, of a design to kill the King.
This does not include other stellar Carter appointees who served prison terms without ever being impeached, like U.
After he was impeached and held in contempt by a federal court - but before he had his license to practice law suspended and was banned from ever appearing before the U.