impend

verb

Etymology: Borrowed from Latin impendere (“to hang over, to weigh out”), 1590s.

1. To hang or be suspended over (something); to overhang.

   “The Earl had often heard of a rich citizen […] and the peculiar charm of a little snug rotunda which he had just finished on the verge of his ground, and which impended the great London road.”

   “when a thing really impends over another, e.g. when one stands at a fountain (עַל־עֵין), over which one really leans When a thing really impends over another, e.g. when one stands at a fountain (עַל־עֵין), over which one really leans.”

2. To hang over (someone) as a threat or danger.
3. To threaten to happen; to be about to happen, to be imminent.

   “impending doom”

   “I, the mother of the only surnamed Glendinning, I feel now as though I had borne the last of a swiftly to be extinguished race. For swiftly to be extinguished is that race, whose only heir but so much as impends upon a deed of shame.”

4. To pay.