impendens (e.g., impendentem evitare tempestatem, Nep.). Imminent danger, praesens periculum; or (when vaguely used) summum or maximum periculum. To be imminent, impendere (to be hanging over one; terror, terrores, belli timor, etc.); instare (to be at hand; bellum, periculum, clades): ☞ imminere is used by Cic. of enemies, nations, countries, etc., that seem, as it were, to be hanging over an object in a threatening manner, and ready to pounce upon it; and also of death, and generally ea quae imminent: not with abstract notions, such as war, danger, etc., but imminente bello (Quint.); periculum, quod imminere ipsi portenderetur (Suet.).