impedimental
English
editEtymology
editFrom impediment + -al.
Adjective
editimpedimental (comparative more impedimental, superlative most impedimental)
- Of the nature of an impediment; hindering or obstructing.
- impedimental bars; impedimental device
- 1857, George Henry Lewes, “Modern Philosophy: Transition Period: From Proclus to Bacon”, in The Biographical History of Philosophy from Its Origin in Greece Down to the Present Day, Library edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 384:
- Here again, if he had consented to remain quiet, he might have been what the world calls “successful;” but he was troubled with convictions—things so impedimental to success!—and these drew down upon him a sentence of excommunication.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:impedimental.
References
edit- “impedimental”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.