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<hw>Im*pel"lent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>impellens</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>impellere</ets>.]</ety> <def>Having the quality of impelling.</def>

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<hw>Im*pel"lent</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An impelling power or force.</def>

<i>Glanvill.</i>

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<hw>Im*pel"ler</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, impels.</def>

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<hw>Im*pen"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Impenned</er> <tt>(?)</tt> and <er>Impent</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Impenning</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To shut up or inclose, as in a pen.</def>

<i>Feltham.</i>

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<hw>Im*pend"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>impend<?/re</ets>; pref. <ets>im-</ets> in + <ets>pend<?/re</ets> to weigh out, pay.]</ety> <def>To pay.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Fabyan.</i>

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<hw>Im*pend"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Impended</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Impending</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>impend\'c7re</ets>; pref. <ets>im-</ets> in + <ets>pend\'c7re</ets> to hang. See <er>Pendant</er>.]</ety> <def>To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten frome near at hand; to menace; to be imminent. See <er>Imminent</er>.</def>

<blockquote>Destruction sure o'er all your heads <b>impends</b>. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Impendence, Impendency</h1> <Xpage=734>

<hw><hw>Im*pend"ence</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Im*pend"en*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of impending; also, that which impends.</def> "<i>Impendence</i> of volcanic cloud."

<i>Ruskin.</i>

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<hw>Im*pend"ent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>impendens</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>impend\'c7re</ets>.]</ety> <def>Impending; threatening.</def>

<blockquote><b>Impendent</b> horrors, threatening hideous fall. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Im*pend"ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Hanging over; overhanging; suspended so as to menace; imminet; threatening.</def>

<blockquote>An <b>impending</b> brow. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>And nodding Ilion waits th' <b>impending</b> fall. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Imminent; threatening. See <er>Imminent</er>.</syn>

<h1>Impenetrability</h1> <Xpage=734>