Word Meanings - EMPEACH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To hinder. See Impeach. Spenser.

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• IMPEACH
  To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper. Note: When used in law with reference to a witness, the term signifies, to discredit, to show or prove unreliable or unworthy of belief; when
• HINDEREST
  Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer.
• HINDERMOST; HINDMOST
  Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2. (more info) superlative from the same source as the comparative hinder. See
• IMPEACHER
  One who impeaches.
• HINDERER
  One who, or that which, hinders.
• HINDERANCE
  See HINDRANCE
• HINDER
  Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse. He was in the hinder part of the ship. Mark iv. 38. (more info) OHG. hintar, prep., behind, G. hinter, Goth.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• IMPEACHMENT
  The act of impeaching, or the state of being impeached; as: Hindrance; impediment; obstruction. Willing to march on to Calais, Without impeachment. Shak. A calling to account; arraignment; especially, of a public officer for maladministration. The
• HINDERLING
  A worthless, base, degenerate person or animal. Callander.
• IMPEACHABLE
  That may be impeached; liable to impeachment; chargeable with a crime. Owners of lands in fee simple are not impeachable for waste. Z. Swift.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• UNIMPEACHABLE
  Not impeachable; not to be called in question; exempt from liability to accusation; free from stain, guilt, or fault; irreproachable; blameless; as, an unimpeachable reputation; unimpeachable testimony. Burke. -- Un`im*peach"a*ble*ness,