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What (who) is impedimenta - definition
WIKIMEDIA LIST ARTICLE
Getafix; Cacofonix; Fulliautomatix; Unhygienix; Bacteria (comics); Geriatrix; Postaldistrix; Impedimenta; Recurring characters in Asterix; Mrs. Geriatrix; Characters in asterix; Characters in Asterix; Characters of Asterix; Ocatarinetabellatchitchix; Asterix characters; Pirates (Asterix); Iélosubmarine; Mrs Geriatrix; Flaturtha; Chief's shieldbearers; Mrs. Fulliautomatix; Julius Caesar (Asterix); Dubbelosix; Vitalstatistix (character)
![Gaulish]] characters, plus [[Julius Caesar]] and [[Cleopatra]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Asterix - Cast.png?width=200 "Gaulish]] characters, plus [[Julius Caesar]] and [[Cleopatra]].")
![Barbe Rouge]]'' originals at right](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Redbeard vs asterix.jpg?width=200 "Barbe Rouge]]'' originals at right")
![The surrender of [[Vercingetorix]] to Caesar, by [[Lionel-Noël Royer]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Siege-alesia-vercingetorix-jules-cesar.jpg?width=200 "The surrender of [[Vercingetorix]] to Caesar, by [[Lionel-Noël Royer]].")
impedimenta
[?m?p?d?'m?nt?]
¦ plural noun equipment for an activity or expedition, especially when considered an encumbrance.
Origin
C17: from L., plural of impedimentum 'impediment', from impedire (see impede).
Impedimenta
·add. ·noun ·pl Things which impede or hinder progress; incumbrances; baggage;.
II. Impedimenta ·add. ·noun ·pl the supply trains which must accompany an Army.
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Examples of use of impedimenta
1. "He wears a mass of impedimenta with an unlimited capacity for getting dirty and unserviceable; he will bite and kick you on the smallest provocation.
2. Then teach them how to sing the National Anthem properly, stop them wearing gloves and T Shirts under their England colours and leave their grotesque impedimenta on the council estates they come from.
3. Presenting a somewhat baroque arrangement of objects, artefacts, models, chairs (so many chairs), annoyingly brief film clips, photographs, slogans, engines, a fitted kitchen and other impedimenta of the interwar years, the exhibition begins to tell the story of the relationship of modernism to ideology, and the sometimes arbitrary co–option and rejection of modernism by totalitarian regimes.
4. HEY PRESTO, YOU‘RE NICKED "If I were a member of the Magic Circle – with all the impedimenta for deceiving people – and one were going through the streets or even one‘s own home, one is frequently making an article which could be used or adapted in connection with fraud," a worried Dominic Grieve warned the Commons this week.