Crossword clues for imposition
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Imposition \Im`po*si"tion\, n. [F., fr. L. impositio the application of a name to a thing. See Impone.]
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The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like. ``From imposition of strict laws.''
--Milton.Made more solemn by the imposition of hands.
--Hammond. That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.
(Eng. Univ.) An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
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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.
--Shak. (Eccl.) The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc.
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(Print.) The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4.
Syn: Deceit; fraud; imposture. See Deception.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "the levying of taxes, a tax, duty, tribute," from Old French imposicion "tax, duty; a fixing" (early 14c.), from Latin impositionem (nominative impositio) "a laying on," from imponere "to place upon," from assimilated form of in- "into, in" (see in- (2)) + ponere "to put, place" (past participle positus; see position (n.)). Sense of "the act of putting (something) on (something else)" is from 1590s. Meaning "an act or instance of imposing" (on someone) first recorded 1630s (see impose).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of impose, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtrude, and the like. 2 That which is imposed, levy, or enjoin. 3 An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put or laid on others. 4 (context printing English) arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product. 5 (context religion English) A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination. 6 (context UK English) A task imposed on a student as punishment.
WordNet
n. the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo) [syn: infliction]
an uncalled-for burden; "he listened but resented the imposition"
Wikipedia
Imposition is one of the fundamental steps in the prepress printing process. It consists in the arrangement of the printed product’s pages on the printer’s sheet, in order to obtain faster printing, simplify binding and reduce paper waste.
Correct imposition minimizes printing time by maximizing the number of pages per impression, reducing cost of press time and materials. To achieve this, the printed sheet must be filled as fully as possible.
Usage examples of "imposition".
That income, being valued at that said time at from forty-four to forty-five million maravedis annually in the three districts of Castilla, Toledo, and Andalucia, dropped to twenty-two millions because of the new imposition, thereby losing a like sum annually.
There was to be no invasion, no imposition of a foreign Catholic sovereign of England: the English Catholics would reach their own solution to the subject of the succession.
In either case, the imposition of a necessarily false order parallels the essential separations that define exile.
It is not every reception of the Holy Ghost that requires an imposition of hands, since even in Baptism man receives the Holy Ghost, without any imposition of hands: it is at the reception of the fulness of the Holy Ghost which belongs to Confirmation that an imposition of hands is required.
In the sacraments of the Church the imposition of hands is made, to signify some abundant effect of grace, through those on whom the hands are laid being, as it were, united to the ministers in whom grace should be plentiful.
One part of the emerging solutionor emerging effort to find a solutionis the imposition of harsher penalties on those guilty of tasting ginger.
The Azath and the Deck are both impositions of order, but even order needs freedom, lest it solidify and become fragile.
His dress corresponds, whereas the white usurper of his territory--servile to the malignant impositions of custom and fashion--suffers from general superfluity and winces under his sufferings.
Parent data does not erase the not ok recordings in the Child, which were produced by the early imposition of this data.
I long to be able to astonish the ignorant with my cabala, which I see requires a mixture of knowledge and imposition.
The ration cards introduced in response to the imposition of sanctions are now vital to the livelihood of the vast majority of Iraqis, as the rations provide roughly three quarters of their monthly calories.
Prior to the imposition of the sanctions and the rationing that followed, Iraq was a largely market-based economy, and even after the Gulf War there was still a heavier market component in Iraq than had been the case behind the Iron Curtain.
There is also a most extensive assortment of tent and turn-up bedsteads, made of stained wood, and innumerable specimens of that base imposition on society - a sofa bedstead.
Which considered, the Equality of Imposition, consisteth rather in the Equality of that which is consumed, than of the riches of the persons that consume the same.
By the imposition of holy orders, the grandson of Heraclius was disqualified for the purple.