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Hindrance; impediment; obstruction. [Obs.] Willing to march on to Calais, Without impeachment. Shak.

re adopted March 1, 1781, and remained the supreme law until March, 1789. -- Articles of impeachment, an instrument which, in cases of impeachment, performs the same office which an indictment does in a common criminal case. -- Articles of war, rules and regulations, fixed by law, for the better government of the arm…

n enough. Lloyd. King James told his son that he would have his bellyful of parliamentary impeachments. Johnson.

oyed for full twenty years (or as against the crown thirty years) should not be liable to impeachment merely by proving that they had not been enjoyed before.

a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment.

That may be impeached; liable to impeachment; chargeable with a crime. Owners of lands in fee simple are not impeachable for waste. Z. Swift.

incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit or honor under the government.

t; to attack; to be in conflict with; to oppose; to resist. They said the manner of their impeachment they could not but conceive did oppugn the rights of Parliament. Clarendon.

lous language. The absurd and scurrilous sermon which had very unwisely been honored with impeachment. Macaulay.