1. (n.) The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.

2. (n.) That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax.

3. (n.) An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.

4. (n.) An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture.

5. (n.) The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremony, in ordination, confirmation, etc.

6. (n.) The act or process of imposing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4.

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