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impedimental en · ADJ

Etymology

From impediment + -al.

Meanings

1. Of the nature of an impediment; hindering or obstructing.
   • impedimental bars; impedimental device
   • Here again, if he had consented to remain quiet, he might have been what the world calls “successful;” but he was troubled with convictions—things so impedimental to success!—and these drew down upon him a sentence of excommunication. 1857, George Henry Lewes, “Modern Philosophy: Transition Period: From Proclus to Bacon”, in The Biographical History of Philosophy from Its Origin in Greece Down to the Present Day, Library edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 384:

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