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impost

noun
/ˈɪmpəʊst/UK/ˈɪmpoʊst/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French impost, itself borrowed or adapted from Latin impōsitus, past participle of impōnō (“to impose”).

  1. derived from impōsitus
  2. borrowed from impost

Definitions

  1. A tax, tariff or duty that is imposed, especially on merchandise.

    • ’Tis a Land-tax, vvhich he’s too poor to pay; / You, therefore muſt ſome other Impoſt lay.
    • 1752, David Hume, Political Discourses, Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, “Of Taxes,” p. 120, […] a duty upon commodities checks itself; and a prince will soon find, that an encrease of the impost is no encrease of his revenue.
    • […] before the sequestration of emigrant property, I had remitted the imposts they had ceased to pay;

  2. The weight that must be carried by a horse in a race

    The weight that must be carried by a horse in a race; the handicap.

  3. The top part of a column, pillar, pier, wall, etc. that supports an arch.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA