impose

Meaning

Verb

• To establish or apply by authority.
• to be an inconvenience (on or upon)
• to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way
• To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
• 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.

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French imposer ("to lay on, impose"), taking the place of Latin imponere ("to lay on, impose"), from .