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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   a creature without feet

   "Aristotle had divided the group into bipeds, quadrupeds and impeds."

Verb

1. 1
   simple past and past participle of imp form-of, participle, past

Adjective

1. 1
   Engrafted, eked, implanted; supplemented by imping. especially, not-comparable

Synonyms

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Example

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"Aristotle had divided the group into bipeds, quadrupeds and impeds."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Coined on Latinate roots (im- + -ped) by Richard Owen in 1861 as a calque of Aristotle’s Ancient Greek ἀπούς (apoús).

Etymology 2

From imp + -ed.

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