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   Impose , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imposed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Imposing.] [F. imposer; pref. im- in + poser to place. See Pose, v. t.]
   To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.
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   Cakes of salt and barley [she] did impose
   Within a wicker basket.
   Chapman.
   
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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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   What fates impose, that men must needs abide.
   Shak.
   
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   Death is the penalty imposed.
   Milton.
   
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   Thou on the deep imposest nobler laws.
   Waller.
   
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   (Eccl.) To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
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   (Print.) 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.
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   Impose, v. i. To practice tricks or deception.
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   To impose on or To impose upon, (a) to pass or put a trick on; to delude; to cheat; to defraud. “He imposes on himself, and mistakes words for things.”
   Locke.
   (b) to place an unwelcome burden or obligation on (another person); as, she imposed on her friend to drive her daughter to school. (c) to take unfair advantage of (a person, a friendship); as, he imposed on his friendship with The Mayor to gain business.
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   Impose, n. A command; injunction. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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