Definition of "impended" [impended]

• Simple past tense and past participle of impend. (verb)

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• "In that respect private capitalism under a consolidated plutocracy, such as impended at the time of the Revolution, would have been a worse threat to the world's future than the competitive system; but as to the immediate bearings of the two systems on human welfare, private capital in the consolidated form might have had some points of advantage."
• "He knew the prod of impulse to join in this rush away from some unthinkably catastrophic event that impended and that stirred his intuitive apprehensions of death."
• "Then he identified the noise, know that no harm impended, and resumed his stealthy advance on the Irish terrier."