Imposition
[ɪmpə'zɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɪmpə'zɪʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo).
(noun.) an uncalled-for burden; 'he listened but resented the imposition'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
(n.) That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.
(n.) An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
(n.) An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture.
(n.) The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc.
(n.) The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Imposing.[2]. Constraint, oppression, burden, charge, injunction, levy, tax.[3]. Deception, fraud, trickery, artifice, IMPOSTURE, cheating.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CHEAT]
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The act of blessing or consecrating by the laying on of hands—a ceremony common to many ecclesiastical systems but performed with the frankest sincerity by the sect known as Thieves.
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Examples
- I heard that the table beer was a robbery of parents, and the pudding an imposition. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Such a method was the only alternative to the imposition of dogma as truth, a procedure which reduced mind to the formal act of acquiescing in truth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- A disgraceful imposition,' observed the old lady. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- After the imposition of a tax of this kind, he can get this reasonable profit only by paying less rent to the landlord. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- To his influence is due the imposition of the Benedictine rule upon nearly the whole of Latin monasticism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had told Mr Rugg that he knew what lawyers and agents were, and that he would not submit to imposition. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Not a hope of imposition or mistake was harboured anywhere. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I thought it an imposition, as I had paid one to the pressmen; the master thought so too, and forbade my paying it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- So great the success, so great the imposition. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- However, in spite of exaggerated imposition, I still find we live within our means. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Without a favorable culture political schemes are a mere imposition. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- That opinion is largely determined by the real impulses of men; and genuine character rejects or at least rebels against foreign, unnatural impositions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The city of Hamburgh {See Memoire concernant les Droites et Impositions en Europe tome i p. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The taboo--the merely negative law--is the emptiest of all the impositions from on top. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Let that infallibility come to be doubted, as in Russia to-day, and natural impulses reassert themselves, the great impositions begin to weaken. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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