imponentadj.n.
/ɪmˈpəʊnənt/, U.S. /ˈɪmˌpoʊnənt/, /ᵻmˈpoʊnənt/ A. adj.
That imposes.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > oppression > [adjective] > domineering or overbearing
masterfulc1390
pontificalc1440
overmasterfula1450
headya1513
imperious1529
supercilious1536
masterlya1544
termagant1546
law-like1556
masterlike1580
dictator-like1582
peremptory1590
domineering1598
burly1605
high-handed1606
pontificial1613
lording1629
overlordingc1629
pontifician1629
peremptor1630
dictatory1639
predominant1642
dictatorial1692
pontific1716
overbearing1718
dictativea1774
knock-me-down1848
imponenta1882
bossy1882
heavy-handed1883
seigneurial1970
a1882 T. H. Green Proleg. Ethics (1883) §323 Were there no Church..Moral duties would still be associated with the imagination of an imponent authority, whose injunctions they would be supposed to be.
B. n.
One who imposes.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > imposition of a duty, charge, or task > one who imposes
imposer1597
imponent1842
1842 E. B. Pusey Crisis Eng. Church 45 While the Bishop..regards the framers of Edward the Sixth's Articles as the imponents of ours, he sanctions the Catholic interpretation as much as ourselves.
1850 C. Wordsworth Occas. Serm. 1st Ser. 132 The Articles are the Articles of the Church. She is the imponent.
1863 J. G. Murphy Crit. Comm. Bk. Gen. (xvii. 9–11) 350 The parent is the voluntary imponent, and the child merely the passive recipient of the sign of the covenant.
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