Definition of imposition

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Imposition (n.) An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture..

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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.) An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture..
Trail :: Trail (n.) The act of taking advantage of the ignorance of a person; an imposition.
Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of something by imposition.
Humbug :: Humbug (n.) An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
Gammon :: Gammon (n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
Gouge :: Gouge (n.) Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person..
Imposement :: Imposement (n.) Imposition.
Slur :: Slur (n.) A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
Hum :: Hum (n.) An imposition or hoax.
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..
Sham :: Sham (v. t.) To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
Contribution :: Contribution (n.) An irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country.
Taille :: Taille (n.) Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects..
Iconoclast :: Iconoclast (n.) One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical.
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax..
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4..
Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right..
Beard :: Beard (n.) An imposition; a trick.
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