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To: dalep who wrote (31351)	12/19/1998 6:51:00 PM
From: The Street	Respond to of 119973

impeach (îm-pêch') verb, transitive impeached, impeaching, impeaches 1. a. To make an accusation against. b. To charge (a public official) with improper conduct in office before a proper tribunal. 2. To challenge the validity of; try to discredit: impeach a witness's credibility. [Middle English empechen, to impede, accuse, from Anglo-Norman empecher, from Late Latin impedicâre, to entangle : Latin in-, in. See IN-2 + Latin pedica, fetter.] - impeach'er noun - impeach'ment noun Word History: Nothing hobbles a President so much as impeachment, and there is an etymological as well as procedural reason for this. The word impeach can be traced back through Anglo-Norman empecher to Late Latin impedicâre, "to catch, entangle," from Latin pedica, "fetter for the ankle, snare." Thus we find that Middle English empechen, the ancestor of our word, means such things as "to cause to get stuck fast," "hinder or impede," "interfere with," and "criticize unfavorably." A legal sense of empechen is first recorded in 1384. This sense, which had previously developed in Old French, was "to accuse, bring charges against." A further development of the sense had specific reference to Parliament and its formal accusation of treason or other high crimes, a process that the United States borrowed from the British. Although we have used it rarely at the federal level, impeachment stands as the ultimate snare for those who would take advantage of the public trust. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition copyright © 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from InfoSoft International, Inc. All rights reserved.