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emposer (1113-19)
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emposer (1113-19)

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enposer;  impouser,  imposer  
  FEW:  pausare 8,64a Gdf:  imposer 4,555c GdfC:  emposer 9,445b TL: imposer 4,1355 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  imposer  TLF:  imposer  OED:  impose v.  MED:  imposen v.  DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

1to lay, place (upon): 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  emposé en peises (Latin: impositi stateris), vanited sunt il ensemble  Camb Ps 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  Suidas 619
2to put, set (above, over): 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Tu emposas humes sur nostre chief (Latin: Imposuisti homines super caput nostrum)  Camb Ps 111.LXV.10
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  Salemon 5517
( 1360 )  en imposant a eux et a chescun de eux [...] perpetuele silence  Foedera1 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  Lett Rois 158
4to confer (to), bestow (upon): 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  glorie e grant beltet emposeras sur lui  Oxf Ps ANTS 53.20.5.5
♦to inflict: 
( c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  Comme plus eions par noz decretz Diversez pecchés imposez, Plus tost en serretz vous coupable  GOWER Mirour 18509
♦to assign: 
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  [...] E es altres reiuns Sunt enposet les nuns Des esteiles reials Que apellum ‘principals’  Comput ANTS 2796
( c.1200; MS: s.xiiiin )  surnum ki lur sunt enposez de humes, mais ne pas propres es ciels  Eluc 13. 31

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See also:

apposer3  imposicion  poser 
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