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

* {{quote-news

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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

To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships.

The singer's popularity endured for decades.

To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.

To last.

Our love will endure forever.

* Bible, Job viii. 15

He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure .

To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.

* Bible, Ezekiel xxii. 14

Can thine heart endure , or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee?

To suffer patiently.

He endured years of pain.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=April 11 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley. }}

(obsolete) To indurate.