impendent
English
Etymology
From Latin impendens.
Adjective
impendent (comparative more impendent, superlative most impendent)
- impending; threatening
- 1667, Milton, John, Paradise Lost, book 2, line 177:
- Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall.
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Synonyms
- imminent, in the offing, proximate; see also Thesaurus:impending
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for impendent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Latin
Verb
impendent
- third-person plural future active indicative of impendō
- third-person plural present active indicative of impendeō