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Impeach   /ɪmpˈitʃ/   Listen
verb
Impeach  v. t.  (past & past part. impeached; pres. part. impeaching)  
1.
To hinder; to impede; to prevent. (Obs.) "These ungracious practices of his sons did impeach his journey to the Holy Land." "A defluxion on my throat impeached my utterance."
2.
To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgment of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment.
3.
Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct. "And doth impeach the freedom of the state."
4.
(Law) To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper. Note: When used in law with reference to a witness, the term signifies, to discredit, to show or prove unreliable or unworthy of belief; when used in reference to the credit of witness, the term denotes, to impair, to lessen, to disparage, to destroy. The credit of a witness may be impeached by showing that he has made statements out of court contradictory to what he swears at the trial, or by showing that his reputation for veracity is bad, etc.
Synonyms: To accuse; arraign; censure; criminate; indict; impair; disparage; discredit. See Accuse.


noun
Impeach  n.  Hindrance; impeachment. (Obs.)





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"Impeach" Quotes from Famous Books



... of conscience, and a rule of justice, to adhere to truth; and am contented that the British reader should say all that fairness admits, to soften down the coloring of some of the pictures of British barbarity, provided he does not attempt to impeach my veracity. ...
— A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. • Benjamin Waterhouse
... Juptka-Getch, tearing out a handful of his beard to signify his tranquillity under accusation, "your doubt of my veracity is noted with satisfaction, but it is not permitted to you to impeach my sovereign's infallible knowledge of character. His courtiers, the great officers of the realm, as you truly name them, are the richest men in the country because he knows them to be the greatest rascals. After each annual reapportionment of the national wealth he settles upon ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce • Ambrose Bierce
... President, a Southern born white man, has already informed the Radicals that he will fight this programme to the last ditch. Stevens' answer was characteristic of the imperious old leader. 'Let him dare! I'll impeach Andrew Johnson, remove him from office and hang him from the balcony of the ...
— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon
... House of Representatives that may impeach the President for any crime, and the Senate hears ...
— The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing - A Manual of Ready Reference • Joseph Triemens
... to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage. The great mass of mankind shun the labor and responsibility of forming opinions for themselves. The question is not—what is true? but—what is popular? Not—what does God ...
— Thoughts on African Colonization • William Lloyd Garrison


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