Crossword-Solution: IMPOSITION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Imposition | n. | The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like. |
| Imposition | n. | That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax. |
| Imposition | n. | An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment. |
| Imposition | n. | An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture. |
| Imposition | n. | The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc. |
| Imposition | n. | The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4. |
We have 33 clues for the answer “IMPOSITION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| indirect taxation | 1 answer |
| Unjust burden. | 1 answer |
| Uncalled-for burden | 1 answer |
| Seat at an AOLer's desk? | 1 answer |
| IMPOSING pages of type in form | 1 answer |
| income tax | 2 answers |
| CAPITAL gains tax | 2 answers |
| Taxation | 3 answers |
| CAPITAL levy | 4 answers |
| impingement | 6 answers |
| pains and penalties | 8 answers |
| Tall order? | 11 answers |
| Impost | 12 answers |
| hard labour | 14 answers |
| expropriation | 15 answers |
| hard labor | 16 answers |
| intrusion | 19 answers |
| Excise | 19 answers |
| White elephant | 20 answers |
| Levy | 29 answers |
| invasion | 33 answers |
| Incur-sion | 34 answers |
| imposture | 47 answers |
| Ransom | 57 answers |
| Onus | 58 answers |
| Scourge | 59 answers |
| Tax | 60 answers |
| Task | 61 answers |
| Demand | 65 answers |
| exaction | 69 answers |
| Edict | 71 answers |
| Artifice | 75 answers |
| Hitch | 91 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
CEMEAZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with IMPOSITION (5)
This then is an appearance only and not a reality; that is to say, the rest is pleasure at the moment and in comparison of what is painful, and painful in comparison of what is pleasant; but all these representations, when tried by the test of true pleasure, are not real but a sort of imposition? That is the inference.
And, realizing that he had fallen into a trap, “Here are three thousand francs,” he sighed; “but at least, my dear sir, give me good measure, and throw in a few thousand francs more.” The coal-merchant smiled the ghastly smile of a man who sees no way of escape from imposition, and has, therefore, resolved to submit with the best grace possible.
But the majority of people are so intensely lazy and timid, that they prefer to encourage the imposition by giving in to it rather than put an end to it by the exertion of a little firmness.
When Menenius related to the people his fable of the limbs and the stomach, if any one had remarked to this story-teller that the stomach freely gives to the limbs the nourishment which it freely receives, but that the patricians gave to the plebeians only for cash, and lent to them only at usury, he undoubtedly would have silenced the wily senator, and saved the people from a great imposition.
There was something almost pathetic in Old Slob's willingness to go on working, even when more work seemed like an imposition.
Quotes with IMPOSITION (3)
The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I c…
In-existence, the soul’s greatest imposition is its perfection. It is projected as a perfected form of the physical embodiment, an emblem of things, perhaps hyperreal and untouchably perfect as existence. It can not be! The soul in-existence is nothing of perfection. It is raw potential. The soul is nothing but potential. To be specific, the soul is unordered potential!
Sometimes customizing is necessary because of an injury or the inability to do, for a short or long period, the kind of exercise you formerly did. When you're used to customizing for fun, doing it under duress won't seem like such an imposition. Either way, experiment until you find activities that make you happy as well as healthy. Choose your exercise using the same criteria you'd apply to choosing a date--that is, attractive to you and able to hold your interest for an hour.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1960–2008).