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Word Meanings - IMPENDENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Impending; threatening. Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall. Milton.

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  • 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.

 

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