Definitions
1.verbTo establish or apply by authority."Congress imposed new tariffs."
2.verbTo be an inconvenience (on or upon)"I don't wish to impose upon you."
3.verbTo enforce: compel to behave in a certain way"Social relations impose courtesy"
4.verbTo practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
5.verbTo lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
6.verbTo 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.