impendent

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin impendens.

Adjective

impendent (comparative more impendent, superlative most impendent)

1. impending; threatening
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book 2, line 177:

     Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) impendent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of impendō
2. third-person plural present active indicative of impendeō