Word Meanings - IMPENDENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Impending; threatening. Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall. Milton.
Related words: (words related to IMPENDENT)
- THREATEN
1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. - IMPENDING
Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening. An impending brow. Hawthorne. And nodding Ilion waits th' impending fall. Pope. Syn. -- Imminent; threatening. See Imminent. - HIDEOUS
hisdous, F. hideux: cf. OF. hide, hisde, fright; of uncertain origin; cf. OHG. egidi horror, or L. hispidosus, for hispidus rough, bristly, 1. Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks. - THREATENER
One who threatens. Shak. - MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell. - MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose. - IMPENDENCE; IMPENDENCY
The state of impending; also, that which impends. "Impendence of volcanic cloud." Ruskin. - IMPENDENT
Impending; threatening. Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall. Milton. - THREATENING
a. & n. from Threaten, v. -- Threat"en*ing*ly, adv. Threatening letters , letters containing threats, especially those designed to extort money, or to obtain other property, by menaces; blackmailing letters. - IMPEND
To pay. Fabyan. - ORCHIDEOUS
See ORCHIDACEOUS - HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.