IMPOSE
\ɪmpˈə͡ʊz], \ɪmpˈəʊz], \ɪ_m_p_ˈəʊ_z]\
Definitions of IMPOSE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.
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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.
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To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
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To practice trick or deception.
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A command; injunction.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.
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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.
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To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
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To practice trick or deception.
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A command; injunction.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To place upon; lay upon, as a burden, punishment, or charge; to pass off deceivingly; to intrude; in printing, to arrange in order and lock up in a kind of box for printing; said of forms, pages, etc.
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To place a burden upon; to take too much for granted or too much liberty with.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To place upon: to lay on: to enjoin or command: to put over by authority or force: to obtrude unfairly: to palm off.
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To mislead or deceive.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman