Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing hindrance; obstructive; impeding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Causing hindrance; impeding.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Causing
hindrance ;impeding .
Etymologies
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Compare French impéditif.
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Examples
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Co-operation between the two great fighting services is the master-key opening every impeditive doorway on the path to victory.
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With good faculties, and fine instincts, Letty was always thinking she must be wrong, just because it was she was in it -- a lovely fault, no doubt, but a fault greatly impeditive to progress, and tormenting to a teacher.
Mary Marston George MacDonald 1864
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The church government which I plead for against him, is a means subservient and helpful, so far as _removere prohibens_, to remove that which apparently is impeditive and destructive to that purity and power.
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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