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

, year=2011 , date=December 10 , author=Arindam Rej , title=Norwich 4 - 2 Newcastle , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Norwich soon began imposing themselves on that patched-up defence with Holt having their best early chance, only to see it blocked by Simpson.}}

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

(imping)

To make a physical impact (on); to collide, to crash (upon).

* , vol.1, New York Review Books, 2001, p.287:

The ordinary rocks upon which such men do impinge and precipitate themselves, are cards, dice, hawks, and hounds […].

(figuratively) To interfere with; to encroach (on, upon).

*

To have an effect upon; to limit.

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, chapter=4, title= Lord Stranleigh Abroad , passage=“I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. …”}}