Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IM-PATIENT-LY, adv.

1. With uneasiness or restlessness as, to bear disappointment impatiently.
2. With eager desire causing uneasiness; as, to wait impatiently for the arrival of one's friend.
3. Passionately; ardently. Clarendon

IM-PAT-RON-I-ZA'TION, n.

Absolute seignory or posses skin. Cotgraw

IM-PAT'RON-IZE, v.i. [Fr. impatroniser.]

To gain to one's self the power of any seignory. Bacon

IM-PAWN', v.t. [in and paten.]

To pawn; to pledge; to deposit as security.

IM-PAWN'ED, pp.

Pledged.

IM-PAWNING, ppr.

Pledging.

IM-PEACH, n.

Hinderance. [Obs.]

IM-PEACH, v.i. [Er. emptcher Ann. avipeich, ampechein Port. and Sp. empachar; It. impacciare; to hinder, to stot. It signifies also to Portuguese, to surfeit, to overload, glut. It belongs to the family pack; L. pango,pactit bakka, to press or compress. Class Bg, No. 18, 20, 61. The literal sense of impeach is to thrust or send against; hence, to hinder, to stop.]

1. To hinder; to impede. This sense is found in our early writers. These ungracious practices of his sons did impeach his journey to the Holy Land. Daries. A deflexion on my throat impeached my utterance. [This application of the word is obsolete.]
2. To accuse; to charge with a crime or misdemeanor; but appropriately, to exhibit charges of maladministration against a public officer before a competent tribunal, that is, to send or put on, to load. The word is now restricted to accusations made by authority; as, to impeach a judge. [See Impeachment.]
3. To accuse; to censure; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct.
4. To call to account; to charge as answerable.

IM-PEACH-A-BLE, a.

1. Liable to accusation; chargeable with a crime; accusable; censurable.
2. Liable to be called in question; accountable. Owners of lands in fee simple are not impeachable for waste. Z. Swift.

IM-PEACH-ER, n.

An accuser by authority; one who calls in question.

IM-PEACH-ING, ppr.

1. Hindering. [Obs.]
2. Accusing by authority; calling in question the purity or rectitude of conduct or motives.

IM-PEACH-MENT, n.

1. Hinderance; impediment; stop; obstruction. [Obit.] Spenser. Shak.
2. An accusation or charge brought against a public officer for maladministration in his office. In Great Britain, it is the privilege or right of the house of commons to impeach, and the right of the house of lords to try and determine impeachments. In the United States, it is the right of the house of representatives to impeach, and of the senate to try and determine impeachments. In Great Britain, the house of peers, and in the United States, the senate of the United States, and the senates in the several states, are the - high courts of impeachment.
3. The act of impeaching.
4. Censure; accusation; a calling in question the purity of motives or the rectitude of conduct, &c. This declaration is no impeachment of his motives or of his judgment
5. The act of calling to account, as for waste.
6. The state of being liable to account, as for waste.

IM-PEARL', v.t. [imperl'. in and pearl.]

1. To form in the resemblance of pearls. Dew-drops which the sun Impeach on every leaf, and every dower. Milton.
2. To decorate with pearls, or with things resembling pearls. The dews of the morning impearl every thorn. Digby.

IM-PEARL'ED, pp.

Formed in the resemblance of pearls.

IM-PEARL'ING, ppr.

Forming in the resemblance of pearls; decorating with pearls.

IM-PEC-CA-BIL'I-TY, or IM-PEC'CAN-CY, n. [See Impeccable.]

The quality of not being liable to sin; exemption from sin, error or offense. Pope.

IM-PEC'CA-BLE, a. [Sp. impecable; Fr, impeccable; us and Sp. pecable, Fr. peccable, from L. peceo, to err, to sin.]

Not liable to sin; not subject to sin; exempt from the possibility of sinning. No mere man is impeccable.

IM-PEDE, v.i. [Sp. impedir; It. impedire. L. impedio; supposed to be compounded of in and pecks, feet, to catch or L. entangle the feet.]

To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impedes the progress of troops.

IM-PED-ED, pp.

Hindered - etopped; obstructed.

IM-PE'DI-BLE, a.

That may be impeded.

IM-PED'I-MENT, n. [L. impedimentum.]

1. That which hinders progress or motion; hinderance; obstruction; obstacle; applicable to every subject, physical or moral. Bad roads are impediments in marching and traveling. Idleness and dissipation are impediments to improvement. The cares of life are impediments to the progress of vital religion.
2. That which prevents distinct articulation; as, an impediment in speech.

IM-PED'I-MENT, v.

I. To impede. [Not in use.] Bp. Reynolds. I

IM-PED-I-MENT'AL, a.

Hindering; obstructing. Mountagu.

IM-PE-DITE, a.

Hindered. Taylor.

IMPE-DITE, v.i.

To impede. [Not in use.]