What is "imposes"

Usage examples of "imposes".

What would she have done, if I had painted her in the simple apparel of the golden age, without any of those veils which modesty imposes upon her sex!

The box was returned to me and I saw that it had made me respected, so small a thing imposes on people.

I have for him the obedience which my position as a wife imposes upon me.

I was beginning to understand that it takes more than audacity of mind to free us from banality, and that the poet triumphs over routines or imposes his thought upon words by efforts quite as long and persevering as those of my work of emperor.