Definition of imposition

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

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Slur :: Slur (n.) A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) Fig.: To get by imposition or mean arts without cost; as, to sponge a breakfast..
Penitential :: Penitential (n.) A book formerly used by priests hearing confessions, containing rules for the imposition of penances; -- called also penitential book..
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like..
Gammon :: Gammon (n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
Contribution :: Contribution (n.) An irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country.
Swindlery :: Swindler (n.) One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat..
Superciliary :: Superchery (n.) Deceit; fraud; imposition.
Taille :: Taille (n.) Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects..
Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To ease of any imposition, burden, wrong, or oppression, by judicial or legislative interposition, as by the removal of a grievance, by indemnification for losses, or the like; to right..
All Fools' Day :: All Fools' Day () The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced..
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4..
Humbuggery :: Humbuggery (n.) The practice of imposition.
Stultify :: Stultify (v. t.) To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct..
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture..
Gouge :: Gouge (n.) Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person..
Beard :: Beard (n.) An imposition; a trick.
Sell :: Sell (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
Sham :: Sham (v. t.) To obtrude by fraud or imposition.
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc..
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