praepĕdĭo, īvi, ĭi, ītum, 4, v. a. [praepes], to entangle the feet or other parts of the body; to shackle, bind, fetter (mostly poet. and post-Aug.; syn.: impedio, illaqueo, irretio).
I Lit.: praepeditus latera forti ferro, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 5: praepeditis Numidarum equis, tied to the manger , Tac. A. 4, 25: sine modo sese praedā praepediant, let them hamper or embarrass themselves , Liv. 8, 38, 13.—
II Transf., in gen., to hinder , obstruct , impede : singultu medios praepediente sonos, Ov. Tr. 1, 3, 42: timor praepedit dicta linguae, Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 25; Ov. H. 14, 18: si forte aliquos flumina, nives, venti praepedissent, Plin. Pan. 68: crura, Lucr. 3, 478: fugam hostium, Pac. Pan. Theodos. 40: recitantium praecipua pronuntiationis adjumenta, oculi, manus, praepediuntur, Plin. Ep. 2, 19, 4: praepediri valetudine, to be prevented by illness , Tac. A. 3, 3: praepeditus morbo, Cic. Rab. Perd. 7, 21.—With inf.: etiamsi praepeditus sit perculsas tot victoriis Germanias servitio premere, Tac. A. 2, 73.