Im-pēde', v

t. [ Lat.impedio, from im- = in- =in, and pes (gen it. ped is )=a foot.] To hinder; to let; to obstruct; to stop the progre of; to encumber. "The leading strings, which preserve and uphold the infant, would impede the full-grown man."- Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. i. *Im-ped-i-ble, a. [Eng. imped (e); -ible .] That may or can be impeded, hindered, or obstructed. "Every internal act is not in itself impedible by outward violence." -Jer. Taylor.