Impose

[ɪm'pəʊz] or [ɪm'poz]

Definition

(v. t.) To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.

(v. t.) To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute.

(v. t.) To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.

(v. t.) To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; -- said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.

(v. i.) To practice trick or deception.

(n.) A command; injunction.

Checked by Gardner

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Put, lay, set, place.[2]. Prescribe, enjoin, appoint.[3]. Obtrude, palm, pass off.

Typist: Stacey

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Lay, inflict, fix, set, place, enjoin

ANT:Remove, disburden

Checked by Hillel

Definition

v.t. to place upon: to lay on: to enjoin or command: to put over by authority or force: to obtrude unfairly: to pass off: (print.) to arrange or place in a chase as pages of type.—v.i. (with upon) to mislead or deceive: act with constraining effect.—n. (Shak.) command injunction.—adjs. Impos′able capable of being imposed or laid on; Impos′ing commanding: adapted to impress forcibly.—adv. Impos′ingly.—ns. Impos′ingness; Imposi′tion a laying on: laying on of hands in ordination: a tax a burden: a deception.

Typist: Veronica

Examples

Edited by Annabel

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