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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Imposture :: Imposture (n.) The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture..
Swindlery :: Swindler (n.) One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat..
Injustice :: Injustice (n.) Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition.
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..
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..
Gammon :: Gammon (n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
Trail :: Trail (n.) The act of taking advantage of the ignorance of a person; an imposition.
Superciliary :: Superchery (n.) Deceit; fraud; imposition.
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..
Iconoclast :: Iconoclast (n.) One who exposes or destroys impositions or shams; one who attacks cherished beliefs; a radical.
Humbuggery :: Humbuggery (n.) The practice of imposition.
Bam :: Bam (n.) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
All Fools' Day :: All Fools' Day () The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced..
Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of something by imposition.
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.
Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc..
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