Legal Definition and Related Resources of Impeach
Meaning of Impeach
To bring charges of misconduct in office against a public official . To discredit a witness or attack his credibility either by questions which result in self- contradiction by the witness or by adducing proof that statements of the witness are unworthy of belief .
Impeach Alternative Definition
To accuse; to question the sufiiciency or genuineness of. To proceed by impeachment (q. v.). In the Law of Evidence. To call In question the veracity of a witness, by means of evidence adduced for that purpose.
Synonyms of Impeach
verb
- accusare
- accuse
- accuse of maladministration
- accuse of misconduct
- admonish
- animadvert
- attack
- attaint
- blame
- bring a charge
- bring charges
- bring into discredit
- bring to account
- bring to justice
- bring up for investigation
- call in question
- call to account
- cast an imputation upon
- cast blame upon
- castigate
- censure
- challenge
- challenge the credibility of
- charge
- charge to
- charge with
- complain against
- condemn
- confute
- criticize
- declaim against
- decry
- denigrate
- denounce
- denunciate
- disapprove
- discredit
- disparage
- dispute
- expose
- fault
- file a claim
- find an indictment against
- hold at fault
- implicate
- impugn
- impute fault to
- inculpate
- incur blame
- indict
- indict for maladministration
- prefer a claim
- prefer charges
- put on trial
- put the blame on
- rebuff
- recriminate
- reprimand
- reproach
- reprove
- ridicule
- take to account
- upbraid
- vituperate Associated Concepts: impeach a government official
- impeach a witness
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Meaning of Impeach in Political Science
A very basic notion of Impeach related to the United States’election law is provided here: To accuse or charge a public official of misconduct
Grammar
This term is a verb.
Etimology of Impeach
(You may find impeach at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).
formerly also empeach, late 14c., “to impede, hinder, prevent,” from Anglo-French empecher, Old French empeechier “to hinder, stop, impede; capture, trap, ensnare” (12c., Modern French empêcher), from Late Latin impedicare “to fetter, catch, entangle,” from assimilated form of in- “into, in” (see in- (2)) + Latin pedica “a shackle, fetter,” from pes (genitive pedis) “foot,” from PIE root *ped- (1) “a foot” (see foot; this term is also a noun.). Sense of “accuse a public officer of misconduct” first recorded 1560s, perhaps via Medieval Latin confusion of the word with Latin impetere “attack, accuse” (see impetus). Related: Impeached; impeaching.
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