Definition of impose

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

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Self-imposed :: Self-imposed (a.) Voluntarily taken on one's self; as, self-imposed tasks..
Gudgeon :: Gudgeon (v. t.) To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon.
Trump :: Trump (v. t.) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
Amercement :: Amercement (n.) The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is arbitrary. Hence, the act or practice of affeering. [See Affeer.].
Hoodwink :: Hoodwink (v. t.) To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon.
Impose :: Impose (v. t.) To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination..
Impose :: Impose (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..
Passion :: Passion (n.) A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross..
Chargeable :: Chargeable (a.) That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man..
Rider :: Rider (n.) An addition or amendment to a manuscript or other document, which is attached on a separate piece of paper; in legislative practice, an additional clause annexed to a bill while in course of passage; something extra or burdensome that is imposed..
Imposable :: Imposable (a.) Capable of being imposed or laid on.
Adultery :: Adultery (n.) The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.
Custom :: Custom (n.) Duties or tolls imposed by law on commodities, imported or exported..
Perjury :: Perjury (v.) At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations..
Unlaw :: Unlaw (n.) A fine imposed as a penalty for violation of the law.
Sagging :: Sagging (n.) A bending or sinking between the ends of a thing, in consequence of its own, or an imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging..
Impose :: Impose (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..
Superinpregnation :: Superimpose (v. t.) To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum..
Incumbent :: Incumbent (a.) Lying, resting, or imposed, as a duty or obligation; obligatory; always with on or upon..
Force :: Force (n.) Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect; especially, power to persuade, or convince, or impose obligation; pertinency; validity; special signification; as, the force of an appeal, an argument, a contract, or a term..
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