imposure

plural imposures

1. countablerareuncountableThe act of imposing.

   Conformity was maintained through a patterned series of social controls which, contrary to the usual system of imposure, actually emanated from within the membership.

   1963, W. M. Kephart, "Experimental Family Organization: An Historico-Cultural Report on the Oneida Community," William M. Kephart, Marriage and Family Living, vol. 25, no. 3, p. 265

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   Just as the imposure of a code limits the entropy of system, be it aesthetic, legal or other, so the semantic context of a text limits and controls the interpretation of its coded message.

   1992, Susan Tiefenbrun, “Semiotics and Martin Luther King's ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’”, in Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, volume 4, number 2, page 257

   According to the CORPORATE INCOME IMPOSURE LAW, a tax for numerical games such as toto, lotto or lottery will be imposed only on what’s left after you subtract the winnings from the income.

   2007 November 20, “Who is bothered by the gambling business?”, in New Europe: The European Weekly, retrieved 09 Feb 2009

   Synonyms: imposition