impedition

English

Etymology

From Latin impeditio.

Noun

impedition (plural impeditions)

1. (obsolete) That which impedes; a hindrance.
   • 1675, Richard Baxter, “[The First Book.] The First Part: […]. Section XVI. Of the Order of the Decrees Called Reprobation. And of Election and Reprobation in Themselves.”, in Richard Baxter’s Catholick Theologie: […], London: […] Robert White, for Nevill Simmons […], →OCLC, paragraph 490, page 72:

     VVhen God poſitively vvilleth the Poſitive hindering of a thing, he may morally be ſaid to Nill the thing, or to vill that it ſhall not be. That there are Poſitive Impeditions of God (by Dr. [William] Twisses leave) I have elſevvhere proved: […]