Word Meanings - IMPEDITIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Causing hindrance; impeding. "Cumbersome, and impeditive of motion." Bp. Hall.
Related words: (words related to IMPEDITIVE)
- 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.