1to lay, place (upon):
(
s.xii1;
MS: 1155-60
)
emposé en peises
(Latin: impositi stateris), vanited sunt il ensemble
105.LXI.9
♦
to attire, deck out (with):
(
s.xiii3/4;
MS: c.1275
)
Li setimes me emposa diademe e
emplirent me mayns de tymiamate
619
3to impose, subject to:
(
c.1136-65;
MS: c.1200
)
La gent senz lei de paenie K’a nostre fei est convertie. Lei de grace lor
enposat E al guarder les doctrinat
5517
(
1360
)
en
imposant a eux et a chescun de eux [...] perpetuele silence
iii 551
♦
tax(of tax, etc.) to impose, charge:
(
1362
)
leur avons donné et ottroyé [...] licence, congié et auctorité de mettre,
impouser, exiger et lever, par eulx ou par leurs depputez, une imposicion de huyt deniers pour livre
158
♦
to inflict:
(
c.1360-79;
MS: s.xivex
)
Comme plus eions par noz decretz Diversez pecchés
imposez, Plus tost en serretz vous coupable
18509
♦
to assign:
(
1113-19;
MS: s.xii3/3
)
[...] E es altres reiuns Sunt
enposet les nuns Des esteiles reials Que apellum ‘principals’
2796
(
c.1200;
MS: s.xiiiin
)
surnum ki lur sunt
enposez de humes, mais ne pas propres es ciels
13. 31
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