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

(initiat)

To begin; to start.

* I. Taylor

How are changes of this sort to be initiated ?

To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.

* Dr. H. More

Providence would only initiate mankind into the useful knowledge of her treasures, leaving the rest to employ our industry.

* John Locke

To initiate his pupil into any part of learning, an ordinary skill in the governor is enough.

To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.

* Bishop Warburton

The Athenians believed that he who was initiated and instructed in the mysteries would obtain celestial honour after death.

* Spectator

He was initiated into half a dozen clubs before he was one and twenty.

To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.

(Alexander Pope)