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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Impend

Im-pĕnd′, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. IMPENDED; p. pr. & vb. n. IMPENDING.] [Lat. impendere; prefix im, for in, and pendere, to hang.] To hang over; to be suspended above; to threaten from near at hand; to be imminent. Destruction sure o’er all your heads impends. Pope.

Im-pĕnd’, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [Lat. impendēre; prefix im, for in, and pendēre, to weigh out, pay.] To pay; to render. [Obs.] Fabyan.