impediment

Etymology
From, borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) A hindrance; that which impedes or obstructs progress.
 * 2) * 1720,, letter to dated 20 July, 1720, in Mr. Pope’s Literary Correspondence for Thirty Years; from 1704 to 1734, London: E. Curll, 1735, p. 129,
 * Your kind Desire to know the State of my Health had not been unsatisfied of so long, had not that ill State been the Impediment.
 * 1) A disability, especially one affecting the hearing or speech.
 * 2) * 1730,, The Evidences of the Christian Religion, London: J. Tonson, Additional Discourses, Section 10, p. 308,
 * Let us suppose a person blind and deaf from his birth, who being grown to man’s estate, is by the Dead-palsy, or some other cause, deprived of his Feeling, Tasting, and Smelling; and at the same time has the impediment of his Hearing removed, and the film taken from his eyes
 * 1)  Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta.
 * 1) A disability, especially one affecting the hearing or speech.
 * 2) * 1730,, The Evidences of the Christian Religion, London: J. Tonson, Additional Discourses, Section 10, p. 308,
 * Let us suppose a person blind and deaf from his birth, who being grown to man’s estate, is by the Dead-palsy, or some other cause, deprived of his Feeling, Tasting, and Smelling; and at the same time has the impediment of his Hearing removed, and the film taken from his eyes
 * 1)  Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta.
 * Let us suppose a person blind and deaf from his birth, who being grown to man’s estate, is by the Dead-palsy, or some other cause, deprived of his Feeling, Tasting, and Smelling; and at the same time has the impediment of his Hearing removed, and the film taken from his eyes
 * 1)  Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta.
 * 1)  Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta.
 * 1)  Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:hindrance
 * See also Thesaurus:hindrance
 * See also Thesaurus:hindrance
 * See also Thesaurus:hindrance

Translations

 * Arabic: عَائِق, عَقَبَة, إِعَاقَة
 * Belarusian: перашко́да, перапо́на
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cimbrian: briighe
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:, , , ,
 * Esperanto: malhelpo
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἐγκοπή, ἔχμα
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin: impedīmentum, ōbex
 * Macedonian: пречка, препрека
 * Malayalam:
 * Plautdietsch: Hindaniss
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: amaladh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пре̏прека, пре̏пона
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: prekážka
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: bagko
 * Telugu: ,
 * Ukrainian: перешко́да, перепо́на, прити́чина, зава́да


 * Finnish:
 * Maori: hauātanga


 * Bulgarian: обо́з
 * Russian:

Etymology
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