impeachment

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something.

   “[…] Nevertheleſs there was no ſo much care, labour, ſtudy, and diligence employed on our Party, by them, our ſelf, and other, for attaining your Grace's Purpoſe, but there was as much done by others for the lett and empeachment of the ſame; […]”

2. isim A demonstration in a court of law, or before another finder of fact, that a witness was ingenuine before, and is therefore less likely to tell the truth now.
3. isim An accusation that a person has committed a crime against the state, such as treason.

   “Backed by the Treasurer's bitterest enemies he brought charges against Danby. Impeachment followed. There was fresh uproar in the House.”

4. isim The act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct, especially if serious, often with the aim of having the official dismissed from office.

   “The awful diſcretion, which a court of impeachments muſt neceſſarily have, to doom to honour or to infamy the moſt confidential and the moſt diſtinguiſhed characters of the community, forbids the commitment of the truſt to a ſmall number of perſons.”

5. isim The state of being impeached.
6. isim Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.

   “Turne thee back, / And tell thy King, I doe not ſeeke him now, / But could be willing to march on to Callice, / Without impeachment: [...]”