Imposed

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impose \Im*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Imposed}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Imposing}.] [F. imposer; pref. im- in + poser to place.
     See {Pose}, v. t.]
     1. 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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     2. 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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     3. (Eccl.) To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of
        confirmation and ordination.
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     4. (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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  imposed \imposed\ adj.
     p. p. of {impose}; as, rules imposed by society.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  imposed
       adj : set forth authoritatively as obligatory; "the imposed
             taxation"; "rules imposed by society"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  22 Moby Thesaurus words for "imposed":
     absolute, binding, compulsory, conclusive, decisive, decretory,
     dictated, entailed, final, hard-and-fast, imperative, irrevocable,
     mandated, mandatory, must, obligatory, peremptory, prescript,
     prescriptive, required, ultimate, without appeal