Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
plural noun
- baggage or other things that retard one’s progress, as supplies carried by an army: the impedimenta of the weekend skier.
pl n
- the baggage and equipment carried by an army
- any objects or circumstances that impede progress
- a plural of impediment (def. 3)
“traveling equipment,” c.1600, from Latin impedimenta “luggage, baggage,” literally “that by which one is impeded;” plural of impedimentum (see impediment).