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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

... civil side, and Mr. Justice Cresswell presided. The lawyers, as far as aspect goes, seemed to me inferior to an American bar, judging from their countenances, whether as intellectual men or gentlemen. Their wigs and gowns do not impose on the spectator, though they strike him as an imposition. Their date is past. Mr. Warren, of the "Ten Thousand a Year," was in court,—a pale, thin, intelligent face, evidently a nervous man, more unquiet than anybody else in court,—always restless in his seat, whispering to his neighbors, settling his wig, ...

— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... derived no use and joy in after life, and which has no connection with individual inclination—is worse than nothing. Precious time is wasted during the years when the mind is most receptive. While the argument of the old school that discipline can only be inculcated by the imposition of a distasteful task is unsound. As Professor Dewey points out, unless the interest is in some way involved there can be no useful discipline. And how many of our university and high school graduates today are in any sense disciplined? Stimulated interest alone can overcome the resistance imposed ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... facilities," the man went on. "I know you have been very kind to me, Mr. Swift, and it seems like an imposition to ask for more. But I need a different lot of chemicals, and they cost money. I also need some different apparatus. You have it in your big laboratory. That wouldn't cost you anything. But of course to go out ...

— Tom Swift among the Fire Fighters - or, Battling with Flames from the Air • Victor Appleton

... the imposition of a differential duty of 50 cents per ton upon Spanish vessels entering ports of the ...

— Messages and Papers of Rutherford B. Hayes - A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents • James D. Richardson

... terminus of the traffic, until the increase of freight lines and the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad to the Red river drove these most primitive of all transportation vehicles out of business. Another cause of the decrease in the fur trade was the imposition of a duty of twenty-five per cent on all dressed skins, which included buffalo robes, and from that time on robes that formerly came to St. Paul from the British ...

— The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier • Charles E. Flandrau

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