Verb

(impos)

To establish or apply by authority.

* Milton

Death is the penalty imposed .

Congress imposed new tariffs.

* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.

to be an inconvenience

I don't wish to impose upon you.

to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way

Social relations impose courtesy

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To practice a trick or deception.

To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.

To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.

Verb

(depos)

(literally) To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away.

* Woodword

additional mud deposed upon it

To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent.

A deposed monarch may go into exile as pretender to the lost throne, hoping to be restored in a subsequent revolution.

* Prynne

a tyrant over his subjects, and therefore worthy to be deposed

(legal) To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition

(legal) To interrogate and elicit testimony from during a deposition; typically done by a lawyer.

After we deposed the claimant we had enough evidence to avoid a trial.

* Shakespeare

Depose him in the justice of his cause.

To take or swear an oath.

To testify; to bear witness; to claim; to assert; to affirm.

* Francis Bacon

to depose the yearly rent or valuation of lands