impeachmentn.

/ɪmˈpiːtʃmənt/

Forms: Also Middle English–1600s em-; for Forms, see impeach v.

Etymology: < Old French empechement, empeschement, modern French empêchement (whence medieval Latin impechementum , impechiamentum ), < empêche-r to impeach v.: see -ment suffix. In senses 4, 5, the word was treated as the representation of medieval Latin impetītio, < impetĕre to attack, accuse, with which however it had no etymological connection.

The action of impeaching.

†1. Hindrance, prevention, obstruction; impediment, obstacle. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun]

lettingOE

leta1175

marring1357

impediment1398

impeachment1432

unhelpc1449

interruption1463

impeach1511

hindrance1526

prevening1557

offence1578

cross1600

impedition1623

obstructing1641

impede1659

objectiona1667

bottleneck1886

dead wood1887

log-jam1890

1432 Paston Lett. No. 18. I. 31 Eny thing that mighte yeve empeschement or let therto.

a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xlviii. f. lxxxxiii^v/1 The deuyll..came to vysyte hym, for to gyue to hym empesshement and lettynge in his contemplacyons.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xv. sig. Hv^v Nowe haue I..declared..the chiefe impechementes of excellent lernynge.

1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander ii. xx. 72/2 Thus without empechement or stoppe, passed Cassander through the countrey of Thessaly.

1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 86 He inuaded Liuonia without impeachment.

1621 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) 696/2 To breid confusioun and Empaschement to þe lordis in..decyding of materis.

a1674 J. Milton Brief Hist. Moscovia (1682) iv. 52 Boris..without impeachment now ascended the Throne.

†2. Detriment, impairment, injury, damage. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun]

burstc1000

harmOE

scatheOE

teenOE

evil healc1175

waningc1175

hurt?c1225

quede?c1225

balec1275

damage1300

follyc1300

grill13..

ungain13..

torferc1325

eviltyc1330

wem1338

impairment1340

marring1357

unhend1377

sorrowc1380

pairingc1384

pairmentc1384

mischiefc1385

offencec1385

appairment1388

hindering1390

noyinga1398

bresta1400

envya1400

wemminga1400

gremec1400

wilc1400

blemishing1413

lesion?a1425

nocument?a1425

injuryc1430

mischieving1432

hindrance1436

detrimenta1440

ill1470

untroth1470

diversity1484

remordc1485

unhappinessc1485

grudge1491

wriguldy-wrag?1520

danger1530

dishort1535

perishment1540

wreaka1542

emperishment1545

impeachment1548

indemnity1556

impair1568

spoil1572

impeach1575

interestc1575

emblemishing1583

mishap1587

endamagement1593

blemishment1596

mischievance1600

damnificationa1631

oblesion1656

mishanter1754

vitiation1802

mar1876

jeel1887

the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harm or injury > [noun]

loathc900

teenOE

ungrithlOE

wemming1100

waningc1175

wrongc1275

prejudicec1300

derea1325

torferc1325

eviltyc1330

griefc1330

wem1338

injurec1374

truitc1390

noyinga1398

inconvenience14..

nocument?a1425

outraya1425

injuryc1430

mischieving1432

supprise1442

incommodityc1450

interess1489

grudge1491

tort1532

wreaka1542

impeachment1548

inconveniency1553

indemnity1556

interestc1575

abuse1595

mischievance1600

oblesion1656

grit1876

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun]

harmOE

tinsela1340

damagec1374

offensiona1382

pairmentc1384

wrongc1384

offencec1385

wrackc1407

lesion?a1425

ruin1467

prejudicec1485

domager1502

qualm1513

jacture1515

imblemishment1529

perishment1540

impeachment1548

blame1549

dommagie1556

execution1581

damagement1603

sufferancea1616

stroy1682

murder1809

punishment1839

1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Lii^v Thee..unsufferable empechemente bothe of Christes honoure and our solles salvation.

1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xxiii. i. 349 No man hath yet susteined anie manner of impeachment through the coldness of the water.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. iii. 15 To let him spend his time no more at home; Which would be great impeachment to his age.

1648 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 14 If they can attain the north without great impeachment..the game may yet be balanced to the purpose.

3. A calling in question or discrediting; disparagement, depreciation.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > [noun] > bringing into disrepute > attack on reputation

impeachment1569

assassination1647

assassinate1657

character assassination1822

hatchet job1940

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 1281 Certaine armes..borne time out of minde, without chalenge or empechment.

1658 H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 213 Without an impeachment to their honour.

1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams I. ii. 35 The reputation of my courage is sufficiently established, not to expose it to any impeachment.

1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 111 The extreme injustice of this impeachment of their character.

a. Accusation, charge. Obsolete except in the soft impeachment.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [noun]

acoupementc1300

accusinga1350

impeachment1387

accusementa1393

accusation?c1400

witingc1449

charge1477

impetition1530

threap1538

imputationa1586

deposition1587

impeach1591

insimulation1592

accusal1594

arraignment1595

taxation1605

arguing1611

tax1613

impositiona1616

tainture1621

incusation1623

touchinga1625

aggravation1626

accrimination1655

compellation1656

imputea1657

inculpation1798

finger-pointing1851

j'accuse1899

1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 165 If sche passe unhurte bare foot..uppon nyne brennynge cultres or schares, let here eskape of his enpechement [L. ab impetitione ista].

1413 Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) i. xxii. 17 b Thenne with an hye voys herd I one speke to my ful grete empesshement.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. ii. 22 The King prouoked by the Queene, Deuisd impeachments to imprison him.

1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus ii. 12 Be it thou beest neuer so harmles, that thou fearest no mans impeachment.

1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals v. iii Sir Lucius O'Trigger—ungrateful as you are—I own the soft impeachment—pardon my blushes, I am Delia.

1866 H. Bushnell Vicarious Sacrifice Introd. 33 A considerable impeachment of heresy.

1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains iv. 161 The Cigarette..denied the soft impeachment.

b. Law. without impeachment of waste (= law Latin absque impetitione vasti): ‘a reservation frequently made to a tenant for life, that no man shall proceed against him for waste committed’ (Wharton Law Lex.).

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [phrase] > specific immunity granted to tenant

without impeachment of waste1415

without peachment of waste1559

1415 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 25 I wolle that..my weyf [haue] it to terme of her lyue wyth-oute empeschement of wast.

1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 33 §1 To holde all the seid Maners..without impechment of Wast.

1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. xviii. 283 Unless their leases be made..without impeachement of waste, absque impetitione vasti; that is, with a provision or protection that no man shall impetere, or sue him, for waste committed.

1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xvii. 124 Under your marriage settlement you are tenant for life, without impeachment of waste.

5. The accusation and prosecution of a person for treason or other high crime or misdemeanour before a competent tribunal; in Great Britain, ‘the judicial process by which any man, from the rank of a peer downwards, may be tried before the House of Lords at the instance of the House of Commons’ ( Dict. Eng. Hist.); in U.S., a similar process in which the accusers are the House of Representatives and the court is the Senate.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > impeachment

peachinga1450

appeachment1450

impeachment1640

1640–4 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 356 The Lords sat upon the Impeachment against the Judges and Bishop Wren.

1667 A. Marvell Let. 26 Oct. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 59 This morning seuerall members of our House did..moue the House to proceed to an impeachment against the Earle of Clarinden.

1754–62 D. Hume Hist. Eng. III. 15 (Seager) The first impeachment by the house of commons seems to have been carried up against Lord Latimer in the latter end of Edward the Third's reign.

1789 Constit. U.S. ii. §4 The President, Vice-President, and all Civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors.

1805 S. Chase in Life Rufus King (1897) IV. 444 Congratulations on my acquittal by the Senate of the Impeachment by the House of Representatives.

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. ix. 566 The articles of Strafford's impeachment.

1867 Nation (N.Y.) 14 Feb. 121 Discussion of the power of the Senate to suspend the President [Johnson] during his impeachment.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

单词	impeachment
释义	impeachmentn. /ɪmˈpiːtʃmənt/ Forms: Also Middle English–1600s em-; for Forms, see impeach v. Etymology: < Old French empechement, empeschement, modern French empêchement (whence medieval Latin impechementum , impechiamentum ), < empêche-r to impeach v.: see -ment suffix. In senses 4, 5, the word was treated as the representation of medieval Latin impetītio, < impetĕre to attack, accuse, with which however it had no etymological connection. The action of impeaching. †1. Hindrance, prevention, obstruction; impediment, obstacle. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] lettingOE leta1175 marring1357 impediment1398 impeachment1432 unhelpc1449 interruption1463 impeach1511 hindrance1526 prevening1557 offence1578 cross1600 impedition1623 obstructing1641 impede1659 objectiona1667 bottleneck1886 dead wood1887 log-jam1890 1432 Paston Lett. No. 18. I. 31 Eny thing that mighte yeve empeschement or let therto. a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xlviii. f. lxxxxiii^v/1 The deuyll..came to vysyte hym, for to gyue to hym empesshement and lettynge in his contemplacyons. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xv. sig. Hv^v Nowe haue I..declared..the chiefe impechementes of excellent lernynge. 1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander ii. xx. 72/2 Thus without empechement or stoppe, passed Cassander through the countrey of Thessaly. 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 86 He inuaded Liuonia without impeachment. 1621 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) 696/2 To breid confusioun and Empaschement to þe lordis in..decyding of materis. a1674 J. Milton Brief Hist. Moscovia (1682) iv. 52 Boris..without impeachment now ascended the Throne. †2. Detriment, impairment, injury, damage. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] burstc1000 harmOE scatheOE teenOE evil healc1175 waningc1175 hurt?c1225 quede?c1225 balec1275 damage1300 follyc1300 grill13.. ungain13.. torferc1325 eviltyc1330 wem1338 impairment1340 marring1357 unhend1377 sorrowc1380 pairingc1384 pairmentc1384 mischiefc1385 offencec1385 appairment1388 hindering1390 noyinga1398 bresta1400 envya1400 wemminga1400 gremec1400 wilc1400 blemishing1413 lesion?a1425 nocument?a1425 injuryc1430 mischieving1432 hindrance1436 detrimenta1440 ill1470 untroth1470 diversity1484 remordc1485 unhappinessc1485 grudge1491 wriguldy-wrag?1520 danger1530 dishort1535 perishment1540 wreaka1542 emperishment1545 impeachment1548 indemnity1556 impair1568 spoil1572 impeach1575 interestc1575 emblemishing1583 mishap1587 endamagement1593 blemishment1596 mischievance1600 damnificationa1631 oblesion1656 mishanter1754 vitiation1802 mar1876 jeel1887 the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > harm or injury > [noun] loathc900 teenOE ungrithlOE wemming1100 waningc1175 wrongc1275 prejudicec1300 derea1325 torferc1325 eviltyc1330 griefc1330 wem1338 injurec1374 truitc1390 noyinga1398 inconvenience14.. nocument?a1425 outraya1425 injuryc1430 mischieving1432 supprise1442 incommodityc1450 interess1489 grudge1491 tort1532 wreaka1542 impeachment1548 inconveniency1553 indemnity1556 interestc1575 abuse1595 mischievance1600 oblesion1656 grit1876 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] harmOE tinsela1340 damagec1374 offensiona1382 pairmentc1384 wrongc1384 offencec1385 wrackc1407 lesion?a1425 ruin1467 prejudicec1485 domager1502 qualm1513 jacture1515 imblemishment1529 perishment1540 impeachment1548 blame1549 dommagie1556 execution1581 damagement1603 sufferancea1616 stroy1682 murder1809 punishment1839 1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Lii^v Thee..unsufferable empechemente bothe of Christes honoure and our solles salvation. 1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xxiii. i. 349 No man hath yet susteined anie manner of impeachment through the coldness of the water. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. iii. 15 To let him spend his time no more at home; Which would be great impeachment to his age. View more context for this quotation 1648 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 14 If they can attain the north without great impeachment..the game may yet be balanced to the purpose. 3. A calling in question or discrediting; disparagement, depreciation. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > [noun] > bringing into disrepute > attack on reputation impeachment1569 assassination1647 assassinate1657 character assassination1822 hatchet job1940 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 1281 Certaine armes..borne time out of minde, without chalenge or empechment. 1658 H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 213 Without an impeachment to their honour. 1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams I. ii. 35 The reputation of my courage is sufficiently established, not to expose it to any impeachment. 1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 111 The extreme injustice of this impeachment of their character. 4. a. Accusation, charge. Obsolete except in the soft impeachment. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [noun] acoupementc1300 accusinga1350 impeachment1387 accusementa1393 accusation?c1400 witingc1449 charge1477 impetition1530 threap1538 imputationa1586 deposition1587 impeach1591 insimulation1592 accusal1594 arraignment1595 taxation1605 arguing1611 tax1613 impositiona1616 tainture1621 incusation1623 touchinga1625 aggravation1626 accrimination1655 compellation1656 imputea1657 inculpation1798 finger-pointing1851 j'accuse1899 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 165 If sche passe unhurte bare foot..uppon nyne brennynge cultres or schares, let here eskape of his enpechement [L. ab impetitione ista]. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton) i. xxii. 17 b Thenne with an hye voys herd I one speke to my ful grete empesshement. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. ii. 22 The King prouoked by the Queene, Deuisd impeachments to imprison him. View more context for this quotation 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus ii. 12 Be it thou beest neuer so harmles, that thou fearest no mans impeachment. 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals v. iii Sir Lucius O'Trigger—ungrateful as you are—I own the soft impeachment—pardon my blushes, I am Delia. 1866 H. Bushnell Vicarious Sacrifice Introd. 33 A considerable impeachment of heresy. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains iv. 161 The Cigarette..denied the soft impeachment. b. Law. without impeachment of waste (= law Latin absque impetitione vasti): ‘a reservation frequently made to a tenant for life, that no man shall proceed against him for waste committed’ (Wharton Law Lex.). ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [phrase] > specific immunity granted to tenant without impeachment of waste1415 without peachment of waste1559 1415 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 25 I wolle that..my weyf [haue] it to terme of her lyue wyth-oute empeschement of wast. 1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 33 §1 To holde all the seid Maners..without impechment of Wast. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. xviii. 283 Unless their leases be made..without impeachement of waste, absque impetitione vasti; that is, with a provision or protection that no man shall impetere, or sue him, for waste committed. 1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xvii. 124 Under your marriage settlement you are tenant for life, without impeachment of waste. 5. The accusation and prosecution of a person for treason or other high crime or misdemeanour before a competent tribunal; in Great Britain, ‘the judicial process by which any man, from the rank of a peer downwards, may be tried before the House of Lords at the instance of the House of Commons’ ( Dict. Eng. Hist.); in U.S., a similar process in which the accusers are the House of Representatives and the court is the Senate. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > impeachment peachinga1450 appeachment1450 impeachment1640 1640–4 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 356 The Lords sat upon the Impeachment against the Judges and Bishop Wren. 1667 A. Marvell Let. 26 Oct. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 59 This morning seuerall members of our House did..moue the House to proceed to an impeachment against the Earle of Clarinden. 1754–62 D. Hume Hist. Eng. III. 15 (Seager) The first impeachment by the house of commons seems to have been carried up against Lord Latimer in the latter end of Edward the Third's reign. 1789 Constit. U.S. ii. §4 The President, Vice-President, and all Civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. 1805 S. Chase in Life Rufus King (1897) IV. 444 Congratulations on my acquittal by the Senate of the Impeachment by the House of Representatives. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. ix. 566 The articles of Strafford's impeachment. 1867 Nation (N.Y.) 14 Feb. 121 Discussion of the power of the Senate to suspend the President [Johnson] during his impeachment. 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