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▪ I. imposing, vbl. n.|ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ|
[f. impose v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of putting, placing, or laying on; imposition. spec.
†a. The imposition of taxes, taxing. Obs.
1610Bp. Carleton Jurisd. 289 This imposing of the Popes Iurisdiction vpon other nations. a1618Raleigh Invent. Shipping 41 Certainly the imposing upon Coales..can be no hinderance..to the Newcastlemen. 1668Glanvill Plus Ultra (1688) 148 [This] prevents all imperious Dictates and Imposings.
b. Printing. The arrangement of pages of type in a ‘forme’. attrib. imposing-stone, -table, a slab of stone or metal on which pages of type or stereotype plates are imposed.
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Printing, The compositor..carries them to the imposing or correcting-stone, there to range them in order, in a chase. 1824J. Johnson Typogr. II. vii. 146 Imposing in quires may be carried on to any extent, by observing the following rule. Ibid. xiii. 482 The moment a sheet is composed and made up, he should order it to be imposed, provided there be room on the imposing-stone. 1846Print. Apparatus for Amateurs 43 The arranging the pages of type for this purpose is called imposing, and this term also includes the placing of the furniture between the pages so as to make the necessary margin. 1883Scotsman 9 May 11/7 A number of Imposing Tables.
2. with upon: Deception; imposition.
1658–9Burton's Diary (1828) IV. 180 This is an imposing upon you.
▪ II. imposing, ppl. a.|ɪmˈpəʊzɪŋ|
[f. impose v. + -ing2.]
That imposes, in various senses of the vb.
1. That peremptorily enjoins; exacting.
1651Boyle Occas. Refl. (1665) II. v. ix. 179 A piece of Vanity, which, as imposing as Custom is wont to be, it has not yet dar'd to enjoyn. 1679Penn Addr. Prot. ii. 144 An Imposing Church..will be both Party and Judge: it requires Assent without Evidence, and Faith without Proof. 1772F. Burney Early Diary (1889) I. 149 He felt the utter impossibility of arguing with a man so imposing and so very ignorant. 1853J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. (1873) II. i. iv. 203 The more barbarous is a nation, the more imposing and peremptory are its claims.
2. That impresses by appearance or manner.
1786W. Thomson Watson's Philip III (1794) II. v. 133 Touched with an imposing delicacy on the irregularity of Ossuna's disposition. 1800E. Hervey Mourtray Fam. II. 15 She had such a majestic imposing air, that..many were disposed to make way for her. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. i. 4 Audacious self-esteem, with good ground for it, is always imposing. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xvi. 110 Mountains..of imposing magnitude.
3. Using deception; practising imposture.
1754Fielding Voy. Lisbon Wks. 1882 VII. 85 The imposing disposition of the people; who asked so much more than the proper price of their labour. 1796J. Owen Trav. Europe I. 72 The Dutch are represented as very trickish and imposing.
Hence imˈposingly adv., in an imposing manner; impressively. imˈposingness, the quality of being imposing or impressive.
1812Sir R. Wilson Priv. Diary I. 377 The whole scene is imposingly magnificent. 1813L. Hunt in Examiner 22 Mar. 184/1 There is a pretty general breaking up of French imposingness over the Continent. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. v. xxxv, The white silk..might have something to do with the new imposingness of her beauty. 1880I. L. Bird Japan I. 15 The British Consulate, imposingly ugly. |