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impose
Verb
  • To establish or apply by authority. transitive
  • to be an inconvenience intransitive
  • to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way
  • 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.