Definition of imposition

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Imposition (n.) The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like..

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All Fools' Day :: All Fools' Day () The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced..
Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of something by imposition.
Chouse :: Chouse (n.) A trick; sham; imposition.
Humbug :: Humbug (n.) An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.
Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast..
Subject :: Subject (v. t.) To expose; to make obnoxious or liable; as, credulity subjects a person to impositions..
Imposture :: Imposture (n.) The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.
Protection :: Protection (n.) A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade..
Superciliary :: Superchery (n.) Deceit; fraud; imposition.
Discrimination :: Discrimination (n.) The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs for substantially the same service.
Bam :: Bam (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
Hum :: Hum (n.) An imposition or hoax.
Humbuggery :: Humbuggery (n.) The practice of imposition.
Taille :: Taille (n.) Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects..
Priestcraft :: Priestcraft (n.) Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others..
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like..
Stultify :: Stultify (v. t.) To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct..
Gammon :: Gammon (n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
Beard :: Beard (n.) An imposition; a trick.
Take-in :: Take-in (n.) Imposition; fraud.
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