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impeachment (the orig. sense = Fr. ‘empêchement’; 2 a 16th-17th c. sense; 3 almost obs. in the gen. sense)
1. hindrance H5 III. vi. 154 “to march . . . Without ”
2. detriment Gent. I. iii. 15.
3. accusation, charge R3 II. ii. 22.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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