Definition of "impositions" []

• Plural form of imposition. (noun)

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• "Their government was illegal, their impositions were arbitrary, and their zeal for the rituals consumed the substantials of religion; and therefore Christ would not give place to them, by subjection, no not for an hour."
• "One of the foxes — the white one — asked about discussing the question of easements through the wood to the south of the school, and saying there had been "impositions" and "slips" between the human and the "Arcadian" version of reality."
• "Parliament was in a position effectually to make or mar the fiscal fortunes of the Government; except that, of course, it was always open to Parliament to criticise the financial expedients of the crown, such as the sale of monopolies, the levy of "impositions," and the collection of benevolences, and to influence, if it could, the policy pursued in relation to these matters."