transitive. To impose (an injunction, penalty, tax); †to bestow (a name) upon. (In early use with dative pronoun as in 2.)

transitive. To enjoin or impose (penance, a task, etc.) upon a person. Const. to (the person), or with simple dative. = enjoin, v. 2.

To impose, ordain, prescribe (a thing) to a person; also, to order (a person) to or to do something. Obsolete.

= intrude, v.

transitive. To impose (a tax or levy) upon. Obsolete. rare.

? To impose by force, to enforce.

To lay on, as something to be borne, endured, or submitted to; to inflict (something) on or upon; to levy or enforce authoritatively or arbitrarily.

transitive. To rebuke, reprove, chide, scold, blame.

transitive. With preposition (chiefly on, upon). To impose (something, esp. something unwelcome) on a person; (reflexive) to impose oneself on a…

transitive. To thrust or bring in without leave; to force (something unwelcome) on or upon a person.

To put (something) forcibly (into the hands of a person); to press, force, or impose the acceptance of (upon some one).

To force, obtrude (something) on a person.

transitive. To press, put, or impose (something) forcibly on, upon (a person), and simply. Also, to force (a person) on, upon (something): to…

Law. transitive. To convert (an estate) into a ‘fee tail’ (feudum talliatum); to settle (land, an estate, etc.) on a number of persons in succession…

transitive. To impose (a thing) upon a person; to foist, fob off, palm off upon. Obsolete.

To impose or thrust (something) upon a person. Obsolete.

transitive. To force or thrust (something) on or upon a person for attention, acceptance, or use.

To enforce (anything) on any one. rare.

transitive. To insist that a person receive or accept (something offered); to thrust on or upon a person.

To impose something unwelcome. (Often jocular.)

To impose (service) upon; to require (a person's) attendance.

transitive. To impose by authority, to dictate. rare.

To foist or impose (something or someone) on (to) someone; to endow with at another's wish.