impedition

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English

Etymology

From Latin impeditio.

Noun

impedition (plural impeditions)

  1. (obsolete) That which impedes; a hindrance.
    • 1675, Richard Baxter, “ The First Part: . Section XVI. Of the Order of the Decrees Called Reprobation. And of Election and Reprobation in Themselves.”, in Richard Baxter’s Catholick Theologie: , London: Robert White, for Nevill Simmons , →OCLC, paragraph 490, page 72:
      VVhen God poſitively vvilleth the Poſitive hindering of a thing, he may morally be ſaid to Nill the thing, or to vill that it ſhall not be. That there are Poſitive Impeditions of God (by Dr. [William] Twisses leave) I have elſevvhere proved: []