Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IM-PEND'
IM-PEN'IM-PEND'ENCE, or IM-PEND'EN-CY
IM-PEND', v.i. [L. impendeo; in and pendeo, to hang.]
- To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten. A dark cloud impends over the land. Destruction sure o'er all your heads impends. Pope.
- To be near; to be approaching and ready to fall on. It expresses our deep sense of God's impending wrath. Smalridge. Nor bear advices of impending foes. Pope.
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