different between depend vs impend

English

Etymology

From Middle English dependen, from Old French dependre and Latin depende?, from Latin d?- + pende? (“to hang”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??p?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

depend (third-person singular simple present depends, present participle depending, simple past and past participle depended)

1. (intransitive, followed by on or upon, formerly also by of) To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition; to hinge on.
3. (intransitive, followed by on or upon) To trust; to have confidence; to rely.

4. (now literary) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.
5. (archaic) To be pending; to be undetermined or undecided.
   • 1703, The History Of King William The Third. In III Parts:

     While the Bishops Affair was depending, the King sent orders [...]

   • 1836, Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench:

     In perjury, the capias, warrant, and affidavit, are good evidence that a cause was depending.

   • 1837, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, page 544:

     "A Letter of the King sent to his Proctors at Rome, concerning a Case of his in the said Court depending."

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References

• depend in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• depend at OneLook Dictionary Search

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• pended

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin impendere (“to hang over, to weigh out”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?p?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

impend (third-person singular simple present impends, present participle impending, simple past and past participle impended)

1. (obsolete) To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.
   • 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 210:

     The Earl had often heard of a rich citizen […] and the peculiar charm of a little snug rotunda which he had just finished on the verge of his ground, and which impended the great London road.

   • When a thing really impends over another, e.g. when one stands at a fountain (????????), over which one really leans.

2. (intransitive) Figuratively to hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
3. (intransitive) To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
4. (obsolete) To pay.

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• Mendip