imposition

[Im`po*si·tion]

Imposition means you force something usually an unwanted burden on someone else. If your friends invite themselves over for dinner the night before your big test, that's an imposition because you'll have to cook instead of studying.

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The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.

Noun
the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo)

Noun
an uncalled-for burden; "he listened but resented the imposition"


n.
The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.

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

n.
An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.

n.
An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture.

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

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


Imposition

Im`po*si"tion , n. [F., fr. L. impositio the application of a name to a thing. See Impone.] 1. 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.
2. That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax. 3. (Eng. Univ.) An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment. T. Warton. 4. 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.
5. (Eccl.) The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc. 6. (Print.) The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4. Syn. -- Deceit; fraud; imposture. See Deception.

The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.

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Usage Examples

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

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Other Usage Examples

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

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