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Word Meanings - IMPEDITIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Causing hindrance; impeding. "Cumbersome, and impeditive of motion." Bp. Hall.

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  • CAUSEFUL
    Having a cause.
  • CAUSATIVE
    1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
  • MOTIONER
    One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
  • MOTIONIST
    A mover.
  • CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
    Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
  • CAUSATOR
    One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
  • CAUSTICILY
    1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
  • CAUSAL
    A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.
  • CAUSATIVELY
    In a causative manner.
  • IMPEDE
    To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops. Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will. Logfellow.
  • CAUSTICALLY
    In a caustic manner.
  • CAUSATIONIST
    One who believes in the law of universal causation.
  • MOTION PICTURE
    A moving picture.
  • MOTIONLESS
    Without motion; being at rest.
  • IMPEDIMENT
    That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect. Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. Shak. Impediment in speech, a defect which prevents distinct utterance. Syn. -- Hindrance; obstruction;
  • IMPEDITE
    Hindered; obstructed. Jer. Taylor.
  • IMPEDIMENTAL
    Of the nature of an impediment; hindering; obstructing; impeditive. Things so impediental to success. G. H. Lewes.
  • CAUSIDICAL
    Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.
  • MOTION
    1. To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat. 2. To propose; to move. I want friends to motion such a matter. Burton.
  • CAUSERIE
    Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
  • ANTICAUSODIC
    See ANTICAUSOTIC
  • EXCITO-MOTION
    Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
  • NERVIMOTION
    The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
  • IDEO-MOTION
    An ideo-motor movement.
  • ENCAUSTIC
    Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile , an earthenware tile which
  • UNCAUSED
    Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.

 

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