IMPOSING

a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Laying as a duty; enjoining.

2.
a.

Adapted to impress forcibly; impressive; commanding; as, an imposing air; an imposing spectacle. "Large and imposing edifices." Bp. Hobart.

3.
a.

Deceiving; deluding; misleading.

4.
n.

The act of imposing the columns of a page, or the pages of a sheet. See Impose, v. t., 4. Imposing stone (Print.), the stone on which the pages or columns of types are imposed or made into forms; - - called also imposing table.


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