Definitions for impose
ɪmˈpoʊzim·pose

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. enforce, imposeverb

   compel to behave in a certain way

   "Social relations impose courtesy"

2. inflict, bring down, visit, imposeverb

   impose something unpleasant

   "The principal visited his rage on the students"

3. levy, imposeverb

   impose and collect

   "levy a fine"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. imposeverb

   to establish or apply by authority

   Congress imposed new tariffs.

2. imposeverb

   to be an inconvenience

   I don't wish to impose upon you.

3. imposeverb

   to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way

   Social relations impose courtesy

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Imposenoun

   Command; injunction. Not in use.

   Etymology: from the verb.

   According to your ladyship's impose,
   I am thus early come. William Shakespeare.

2. To IMPOSEverb

   Etymology: imposer, French; impositum, Latin.

   1. To lay on as a burthen or penalty.

   If a son, sent by his father, do fall into a lewd action, the imputation, by your rule, should be imposed upon his father. William Shakespeare.

   It shall not be lawful to impose toll upon them. Ezra vii.

   To tyrants others have their country sold,
   Imposing foreign lords for foreign gold. John Dryden, Æn.

   On impious realms and barb'rous kings impose
   Thy plagues, and curse them with such ills as those. Alexander Pope.

   2. To enjoin as a duty or law.

   What good or evil is there under the sun, what action correspondent or repugnant unto the law which God hath imposed upon his creatures, but in or upon it God doth work, according to the law which himself hath eternally purposed to keep? Richard Hooker.

   There was a thorough way made by the sword for the imposing of the laws upon them. Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

   Thou on the deep imposest nobler laws,
   And by that justice hast remov'd the cause. Edmund Waller.

   Christianity hath hardly imposed any other laws upon us, but what are enacted in our natures, or are agreeable to the prime and fundamental laws of it. John Tillotson.

   Impose but your commands,
   This hour shall bring you twenty thousand hands. Dryden.

   It was neither imposed on me, nor so much as the subject given me by any man. Dryden.

   3. To fix on; to impute to.

   This cannot be allowed, except we impute that unto the first cause which we impose not on the second; or what we deny unto nature, we impute unto nativity itself. Brown.

   4. To obtrude fallaciously.

   Our poet thinks not fit
   T' impose upon you what he writes for wit. Dryden.

   5. To Impose on. To put a cheat on; to deceive.

   Physicians and philosophers have suffered themselves to be so far imposed upon as to publish chymical experiments, which they never tried. Boyle.

   He that thinks the name centaur stands for some real being, imposes on himself, and mistakes words for things. John Locke.

   6. [Among printers.] To put the pages on the stone, and fit on the chases, in order to carry the forms to press.

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1. impose

   To impose is to forcibly place or inflict something upon others, such as rules, taxes, beliefs or punishments. It can also refer to exerting oneself in a dominant or authoritarian manner or taking advantage of someone by expecting them to do something against their will.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Imposeverb

   to lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit

2. Imposeverb

   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

3. Imposeverb

   to lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination

4. Imposeverb

   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

5. Imposeverb

   to practice trick or deception

6. Imposenoun

   a command; injunction

7. Etymology: [F. imposer; pref. im- in + poser to place. See Pose, v. t.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Impose

   im-pōz′, v.t. to place upon: to lay on: to enjoin or command: to put over by authority or force: to obtrude unfairly: to pass off: (print.) to arrange or place in a chase, as pages of type.—v.i. (with upon) to mislead or deceive: act with constraining effect.—n. (Shak.) command, injunction.—adjs. Impos′able, capable of being imposed or laid on; Impos′ing, commanding: adapted to impress forcibly.—adv. Impos′ingly.—ns. Impos′ingness; Imposi′tion, a laying on: laying on of hands in ordination: a tax, a burden: a deception. [Fr. imposer—L. in, on, ponĕre, to place.]

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'impose' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4733

2. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'impose' in Verbs Frequency: #330

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1. mopies

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of impose in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of impose in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of impose in a Sentence

1. Tucker Carlson:

   He can only be the nominee by fiat, whenever you impose something by fiat on a population that's not convinced of it, whether it's Roe vs. Wade or ObamaCare or the Iraq War or whatever, you have long term, decades-long resentment and problems as a result.

2. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

   Democrats are a big tent party, you know, I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all several hundred members of Congress. But I do think that, once again, it's not about selling an - ism, or an ideology, or a label or a color. This is about selling our values.

3. East Asia Daniel Russel:

   This argues even more strongly for action by the U.N. Security Council and the international community to impose real consequences for the destabilizing action that (North Korea) has taken and is taking.

4. Mohamed Al-Faki Suleiman:

   This is a result of the civil authority's lack of control over the security services, especially the police and security agencies, and therefore we were not able to impose our control over the smuggling process.

5. The Treasury Department on Thursday:

   These actions reaffirm the U.S. government's commitment to impose costs on the Lukashenka regime for enabling corruption, human rights abuses, inhumane exploitation of vulnerable people and orchestration of irregular migration, and attacks against democratic freedoms and international norms.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=impose
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Impose
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=impose
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impose
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=impose