different between impend vs imped

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fabyan to this entry?)

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Mendip

English

Etymology 1

Coined on Latinate roots (im- +? -ped) by Richard Owen in 1861 as a calque of Aristotle’s Ancient Greek ????? (apoús).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?m?p?d, IPA^(key): /??mp?d/

Noun

imped (plural impeds)

1. a creature without feet
   • 1861: Richard Owen in:
   • 1894: The Reverend Richard Owen (Richard Owen’s grandson), The Life of Richard Owen, volume 2, page 119

     Aristotle had divided the group into bipeds, quadrupeds and impeds.

References

• “imped, n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

Etymology 2

imp +? -ed

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?mpt, ?m?p?d, IPA^(key): /?mpt/, /??mp?d/

Adjective

imped (not comparable)

1. (especially of feathers in falconry) Engrafted, eked, implanted; supplemented by imping.

References

• “imped, ppl. a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mpt/

Verb

imped

1. simple past tense and past participle of imp

Anagrams

• -pidem