different between impend vs impens

English

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

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

(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.
(intransitive) Figuratively to hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
(intransitive) To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.
(obsolete) To pay.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Fabyan to this entry?)

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