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noun

Imposition n.

The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like. "From imposition of strict laws." "Made more solemn by the imposition of hands."

That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.

(Eng. Univ.) An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.

An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture. "Reputation is an idle and most false imposition."

(Eccl.) The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc.

(Print.) The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4.

Synonyms: Deceit; fraud; imposture. See Deception.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Imposition" Quotes from Famous Books

... O. HENRY unless he also purchased a remainder copy of Wanderings Round Widnes (published at twelve-and-six net). The Chairman, remarking that the case was a specially flagrant one, expressed a hope that the result would protect the public from such imposition in future. ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Dec. 19, 1917 • Various

... testimony; it would be impossible, I say, to convince those people it were true, provided the event had not happened. Every person would be at hand to contradict me, and consequently it would be impossible that such an imposition could be put upon them against the direct evidence ...

— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby

... for the Directory. This was settled by a set of most learned divines and learned laymen: Selden sat amongst them. Did this please? It was considered upon both sides as a most unchristian imposition. Well, at the Restoration they rejected the Directory, and reformed the Common Prayer,—which, by the way, had been three times reformed before. Were they then contented? Two thousand (or some great number) ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VII. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... le Roy Edw. I. And possibly as the proper name of the fourth part of a Peny was called a Farthing, ordinarily a Ferling; so in truth the proper name of a Peny in those times was called a Sterling, without any other reason of it than the use of the times and arbitrary imposition, as other names usually grow. For the old Act of 51 H. III., called Compositio Mensurarum, tells us that Denarius Anglice Sterlingus dicitur; and because this was the root of the measure, especially of Silver Coin, therefore all our Coin of the same allay ...

— Notes & Queries, No. 26. Saturday, April 27, 1850 • Various

... I must either say nothing of these Frenchmen, officers and all; or else I must speak as I found them. I hope they were not a just sample of their whole nation; for these gentry would exercise every imposition, and even insinuate the thing that was not, the more easily to plunder us of our hard earned pittance of small change. Had they shown any generosity, like the British tar, I should have passed over their conduct ...

— A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. • Benjamin Waterhouse

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