Word Meanings - IMPEDITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Hindered; obstructed. Jer. Taylor.

Related words: (words related to IMPEDITE)

• OBSTRUCTIVE
  Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment. -- Ob*struct"ive*ly, adv.
• OBSTRUCTIONIST
  One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. -- a.
• HINDEREST
  Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer.
• OBSTRUCTER
  One who obstructs or hinders.
• OBSTRUCT
  before or against, to obstruct; ob + struere to pile up. 1. To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing; as, to obstruct a street;
• HINDERMOST; HINDMOST
  Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2. (more info) superlative from the same source as the comparative hinder. See
• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
• OBSTRUCTION
  1. The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed. 2. That which obstructs or impedes; an obstacle; an impediment; a hindrance. A popular assembly free from obstruction. Swift. 3. The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their
• HINDERER
  One who, or that which, hinders.
• HINDERANCE
  See HINDRANCE
• HINDER
  Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse. He was in the hinder part of the ship. Mark iv. 38. (more info) OHG. hintar, prep., behind, G. hinter, Goth.
• OBSTRUCTIONISM
  The act or the policy of obstructing progress. Lond. Lit. World.
• HINDERLING
  A worthless, base, degenerate person or animal. Callander.
• DEOBSTRUCT
  To remove obstructions or impediments in; to clear from anything that hinders the passage of fluids; as, to deobstruct the pores or lacteals. Arbuthnot.