Crossword-Solution: IMPOSES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| IMPOSES | anagram | POEMSIS |
We have 15 clues for the answer “IMPOSES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Asks for a big favor, say | 1 answer |
| Becomes a burden | 1 answer |
| Foists | 1 answer |
| Inflicts oneself upon others | 1 answer |
| Intrudes (upon) | 1 answer |
| Is a burden | 1 answer |
| Levies (on) | 1 answer |
| Levies, as a tax | 1 answer |
| ___ on (misuses) | 1 answer |
| Is obtrusive | 2 answers |
| Obtrudes | 3 answers |
| Dictates | 4 answers |
| Levies. | 8 answers |
| A BUREAUCRAT WHO LEVIES TAXES | 10 answers |
| Takes advantage of | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EZMECA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with IMPOSES (5)
Now my humble fear is that this double training, in language as well as in thought, imposes somewhat too heavy a burden upon the young, especially when, at the age of three years old, they are taken from the maternal care and taught to unlearn the old language—except for the purpose of repeating it in the presence of the Mothers and Nurses—and to learn the vocabulary and idiom of science.
Thus every sort of confusion is revealed within us; and this is that weakness of the human mind on which the art of conjuring and of deceiving by light and shadow and other ingenious devices imposes, having an effect upon us like magic.
Why not make dish-washing my balm and poultice? "When one views a stubborn fact from a new angle, it is amazing how all its contours and edges change shape! Immediately my dishpan began to glow with a kind of philosophic halo! The warm, soapy water became a sovereign medicine to retract hot blood from the head; the homely act of washing and drying cups and saucers became a symbol of the order and cleanliness that man imposes on the unruly world about him.
Now my humble fear is that this double training, in language as well as in thought, imposes somewhat too heavy a burden upon the young, especially when, at the age of three years old, they are taken from the maternal care and taught to unlearn the old language--except for the purpose of repeating it in the presence of their Mothers and Nurses--and to learn the vocabulary and idiom of science.
But, somehow, he commands an atmosphere; he has a spacious manner; and he has kept up, all through life, such a volume of racket about his personality, with his chaises and his racers and his dicings, and I know not what—that somehow he imposes! It seems, when the farce is done, and he locked in Fleet prison—and nobody left but Buonaparte and Lord Wellington and the Hetman Platoff to make a work about—the world will be in a comparison quite tranquil.
Quotes with IMPOSES (3)
The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be …
Knowledge [savoir] in general cannot be reduced to science, nor even to learning [connaissance]. Learning is the set of statements which, to the exclusion of all other statements, denote or describe objects and may be declared true or false. Science is a subset of learning. It is also composed of denotative statements, but imposes two supplementary conditions on their acceptability: the objects to which they refer must be available for repeated access, in other words, they mu…
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Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1960–2023).