Definition of imposition

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

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Gouge :: Gouge (n.) Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person..
Slur :: Slur (n.) A trick played upon a person; an imposition.
Gammon :: Gammon (n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax..
Sell :: Sell (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
Superciliary :: Superchery (n.) Deceit; fraud; imposition.
All Fools' Day :: All Fools' Day () The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced..
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 extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.
Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of something by imposition.
Taille :: Taille (n.) Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects..
Priestcraft :: Priestcraft (n.) Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others..
Immunity :: Immunity (a.) Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy..
Beard :: Beard (n.) An imposition; a trick.
Contribution :: Contribution (n.) An irregular and arbitrary imposition or tax leved on the people of a town or country.
Take-in :: Take-in (n.) Imposition; fraud.
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4..
Castle-guard :: Castle-guard (n.) A tax or imposition an a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castle-ward..
Protection :: Protection (n.) A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade..
Chouse :: Chouse (n.) A trick; sham; imposition.
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