IMPOSITION
\ɪmpəzˈɪʃən], \ɪmpəzˈɪʃən], \ɪ_m_p_ə_z_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of IMPOSITION
- 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
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
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That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.
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An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
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An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture.
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The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4.
By Oddity Software
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The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
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That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.
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An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
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An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture.
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The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4.
By Noah Webster.
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A laying upon, especially of hands, in ordination or confirmation; that which is ordered, levied, or commanded; an extra exercise required of a student as a punishment; a trick, fraud, or deception; an excessive or uncalled-for requirement or burden.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The act of imposing or laying on, such as hands in ordination, or as task or tax; that which is imposed, as a tax, toll, or duty; a poena; a deception or imposture.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The act of laying on; imposture; fraud; a tax or toll; an extra exercise laid on a student as a punishment.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. Act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding; - that which is imposed ; charge ; burden : injunction ; levy ; tax ;- a trick or deception put or laid on others ; - act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremony in ordination and the like ;- a supernumerary exercise prescribed to scholars as a punishment.
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