Hypertext Webster Gateway: "imposing"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Imposing \Im*pos"ing\, a.
1. Laying as a duty; enjoining.

2. Adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as,
an imposing air; an imposing spectacle. ``Large and
imposing edifices.'' --Bp. Hobart.

3. Deceiving; deluding; misleading.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Impose \Im*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Imposed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Imposing}.] [F. imposer; pref. im- in + poser to place.
See {Pose}, v. t.]
1. To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.

Cakes of salt and barley [she] did impose Within a
wicker basket. --Chapman.

2. 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.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide.
--Shak.

Death is the penalty imposed. --Milton.

Thou on the deep imposest nobler laws. --Waller.

3. (Eccl.) To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of
confirmation and ordination.

4. (Print.) 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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Imposing \Im*pos"ing\, n. (Print.)
The act of imposing the columns of a page, or the pages of a
sheet. See {Impose}, v. t., 4.

{Imposing stone} (Print.), the stone on which the pages or
columns of types are imposed or made into forms; -- called
also {imposing table}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

imposing
adj 1: impressive in appearance; "a baronial mansion"; "an imposing
residence"; "a noble tree"; "severe-looking policemen
sat astride noble horses"; "stately columns" [syn: {baronial},
{noble}, {stately}]
2: used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an
eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the
monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial
beauty" [syn: {distinguished}, {magisterial}]


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