Definition of impose

• v. t. - To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. i. - To practice trick or deception.
• n. - A command; injunction.