IMPOSE

inflict, bring down, visit, impose

(verb) impose something unpleasant; “The principal visited his rage on the students”

levy, impose

(verb) impose and collect; “levy a fine”

enforce, impose, constrain

(verb) compel to behave in a certain way; “Social relations impose courtesy”; “duty constrains one to act often contrary to one’s desires or inclinations”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

impose (third-person singular simple present imposes, present participle imposing, simple past and past participle imposed)

(transitive) To establish or apply by authority.

(intransitive) 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.

Anagrams

• mopies, pomeis

Source: Wiktionary

Im*pose", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imposed; p. pr. & vb. n. Imposing.] Etym: [F. imposer; pref. im- in + poser to place. See Pose, v. t.]

1. To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit. Cakes of salt and barley [she] did impose Within a wicker basket. Chapman.

2. To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation, command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict; as, to impose a toll or tribute. What fates impose, that men must needs abide. Shak. Death is the penalty imposed. Milton. Thou on the deep imposest nobler laws. Waller.

3. (Eccl.)

Definition: To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.

4. (Print.)

Definition: 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.

Im*pose", v. i.

Definition: To practice trick or deception. To impose on or upon, to pass or put a trick on; to delude. "He imposes on himself, and mistakes words for things." Locke.

Im*pose", n.

Definition: A command; injunction. [Obs.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition