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comparative more impellent, superlative most impellent
Having the quality of being impelling. quotations examples
Hence, the excess of impellent force which was given to the piston, beyond what was absolutely requisite to overcome the resistances to its motion, was made available to prolong that motion, beyond the point at which the impellent force […]
1827, John Farey, A Treatise on the Steam Engine Historical, Practical, and Descriptive, page 181
plural impellents
An impelling power or force. quotations examples
blind impellents and material conveyances
1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […]