- Inner impediment - mental restraint - Reticence - The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited;
restraint; prohibition; embargo. - A stopping or checking of an already present action; a
restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive
fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by
the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc. - A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge
from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a
higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal.
- Handicap - Obstruction or snag - Obstruction, impediment - The act of hindering, or the state of being hindered. - That which hinders; an impediment.
- Burden - Burden or impediment - Burden, impediment - Hindrance - That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action,
or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See
Incumbrance. - Same as Incumbrance.