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Webster 1913 Edition
Impend
Im-pend′
,Verb.
T.
[L.
impendĕre
; pref. im-
in + pendĕre
to weigh out, pay.] To pay.
[Obs.]
Fabyan.
Webster 1828 Edition
Impend
IMPEND'
,Verb.
I.
1.
To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten. A dark cloud impends over the land. Destruction sure o'er all your heads impends.
2.
To be near; to be approaching and ready to fall on. It expresses our deep sense of God;s impending wrath.
Nor bear advices of impending foes.
Definition 2024
impend
impend
English
Verb
impend (third-person singular simple present impends, present participle impending, simple past and past participle impended)
- (intransitive) To expect to, or be about to, happen or occur, especially of something which takes some time such as a process or procedure rather than just a short event. "To impend" often has the connotation of threat.
- (obsolete) To overhang.
- 1857, Tregelles, Samuel Prideaux, “עַל (Strong's H5921) definition (A)(3)(a)”, in Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, retrieved 27 Sep 2015:
- When a thing really impends over another, e.g. when one stands at a fountain (עַל־עֵין), over which one really leans.
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- (obsolete) To pay.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fabyan to this entry?)
Translations
be about to happen
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