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imposer|ɪmˈpəʊzə(r)|
[f. impose v. + -er1.]
a. One who imposes: in various senses of the vb.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxviii. §2 According to the mind of the first imposer of that name. 1641Milton Animadv. i, Civil politie, say you..came from arbitrary imposers. 1659Pearson Creed (1741) 189 The coronary thorns did not only express the scorn of the imposers,..but did also pierce his tender and sacred temples. 1681H. More in Glanvill's Sadducismus Postscr., Præstigiator an Imposer on the sight. 1702De Foe Occas. Conform. in Misc. 315 An Oath is to be taken in the Sense of the Imposer, and a Sacrament, which is a Recognition of the most Sacred of Oaths, must be also taken in the Sense of the Imposer. 1860Trench Serm. Westm. Abb. ix. 96 They might have cursed the imposers of those tasks. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 36 What that is to which the imposer of names gives this name of temperance or wisdom.
b. Printing. One who imposes (see impose v. 1 d).
1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §522 Stone hand, imposer; imposes type, which has been set up in page form, in correct position in chase or iron frame, for printing in sheets. |