impedimenta
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9.9
- noun
- /ɪmˈpɛdɪˌmɛntə/
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carga
- His records, files, and other impedimenta are stored in holes in the ground, kept carefully covered.
- other impedimenta
Examples
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She wears a heavy belt holding a revolver, walkie-talkie, and various other jangling police impedimenta.
Fiction book (1996) -
Among the impedimenta blocking access to the true self was that old-time religion—specifically, Christianity, whose original spirit had been deformed by its outworn institutions.
Academic text (2010) -
Oh, leave the impedimenta at the side of the road.
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The melancholic impedimenta of age in America?
Fiction book (1990) -
I am rather pleased at this role reversal, with me serving as academic impedimenta.
Fiction book (1990) -
Christianity, however, swept away the impedimenta of Judaic law, made it easy to convert, and accepted with very few reservations whatever had been the established civil law among a converted population in earlier times.
Blog text (24) -
Where I worked was low-profile, comfortable but businesslike, my impedimenta deliberately unrevealing and bland.
Fiction book (1990) -
Responsibility, honor—the impedimenta of the commonplace—bind them down, however tenuously, to the earth.
Fiction book (1996) -
Rejecting a gift went against the grain of my anthropological intuition, and I accepted perhaps too hastily this unwarranted addendum to my impedimenta.
Academic text (1996) -
The hikers decided to leave behind their extra gear, considering it mere impedimenta for their journey.
Synonyms
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5.8
A person or thing that makes work slower
Something that makes a task or journey harder
How Burdensome
Surface Forms
Etymology
Impedimenta comes from the old Latin parts in- ('in' or 'against') and ped- ('foot'), the same ped- you see in pedal. It originally meant things that 'get in the way of the foot', like baggage or chains that slow movement, so today impedimenta means equipment or baggage that slows you down.