impeditive

Compare French impéditif, Italian impeditivo, and Portuguese impeditivo.

impeditive (comparative more impeditive, superlative most impeditive)

1. Causing or being a hindrance; impeding.
   • 1651, Jos[eph] Hall, Susurrium cum Deo. Soliloquies: Or, Holy Self-conferences of the Devout Soul, […], 2nd edition, London: […] Will[iam] Hunt, and are to be sold by George Lathum junior, […], →OCLC:

     cumbersome, and impeditive of motion

   • 1693, Thomas Urquhart, Peter Antony Motteux, transl., The Third Book:

     the impeditive interposition of many great rivers

   • 2007, Albert P. Rockne, Focus on Fibromyalgia Research:

     a factor impeditive to its influence

• “impeditive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /im.pe.diˈti.ve/
• Rhymes: -ive
• Hyphenation: im‧pe‧di‧tì‧ve

impeditive

1. feminine plural of impeditivo