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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
imposing
    adj 1: impressive in appearance; "a baronial mansion"; "an
           imposing residence"; "a noble tree"; "severe-looking
           policemen sat astride noble horses"; "stately columns"
           [syn: baronial, imposing, noble, stately]
    2: used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an
       eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's
       imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty" [syn:
       distinguished, grand, imposing, magisterial]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Impose \Im*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imposed; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Imposing.] [F. imposer; pref. im- in + poser to place.
   See Pose, v. t.]
   1. To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.
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            Cakes of salt and barley [she] did impose
            Within a wicker basket.               --Chapman.
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   2. To lay as a charge, burden, tax, duty, obligation,
      command, penalty, etc.; to enjoin; to levy; to inflict;
      as, to impose a toll or tribute.
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            What fates impose, that men must needs abide.
                                                  --Shak.
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            Death is the penalty imposed.         --Milton.
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            Thou on the deep imposest nobler laws. --Waller.
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   3. (Eccl.) To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of
      confirmation and ordination.
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   4. (Print.) To 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.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Imposing \Im*pos"ing\, a.
   1. Laying as a duty; enjoining.
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   2. Adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as,
      an imposing air; an imposing spectacle. "Large and
      imposing edifices." --Bp. Hobart.
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   3. Deceiving; deluding; misleading.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Imposing \Im*pos"ing\, n. (Print.)
   The act of imposing the columns of a page, or the pages of a
   sheet. See Impose, v. t., 4.
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   Imposing stone (Print.), the stone on which the pages or
      columns of types are imposed or made into forms; -- called
      also imposing table.
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Thesaurus Results for imposing:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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