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legislate

English

Etymology

Back-formation from legislation, legislator.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?l?d??s?le?t/

Verb

legislate (third-person singular simple present legislates, present participle legislating, simple past and past participle legislated)

  1. To pass laws (including the amending or repeal of existing laws).
    If they can't get people to do the right thing by talking then they will try to legislate it, then they can try to enforce the statutes.

Derived terms

Translations

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impose

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French imposer (to lay on, impose), taking the place of Latin imponere (to lay on, impose), from in (on, upon) + ponere (to put, place).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?m?po?z/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?p??z/
  • Rhymes: -??z

Verb

impose (third-person singular simple present imposes, present participle imposing, simple past and past participle imposed)

  1. (transitive) To establish or apply by authority.
    Congress imposed new tariffs.
    • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[2]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
      Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
  2. (intransitive) to be an inconvenience (on or upon)
    I don't wish to impose upon you.
  3. to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way
    Social relations impose courtesy
  4. To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
  5. To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
  6. 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.

Derived terms

  • imposure
  • superimpose

Related terms

  • imposition

Translations

Further reading

  • impose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • impose in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • impose at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • mopies, pomeis

French

Verb

impose

  1. first-person singular present indicative of imposer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of imposer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of imposer
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of imposer
  5. second-person singular imperative of imposer

Italian

Verb

impose

  1. third-person singular past historic of imporre

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  • what does impose mean
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