noun a command; injunction.
2. impose ·vi to practice trick or deception.
3. impose ·vt to lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
4. impose ·vt to lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.
5. impose ·vt 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.
6. impose ·vt 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.