Search the Dictionary

y. Even the ship money . . . Johnson could not pronounce to have been an unconstitutional impost. Macaulay.

To apostemate; to form an imposthume or abscess. Arbuthnot.

An abscess; an imposthume. Coxe.

Same as Imposthumate.

haracter or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender. "The fraudulent impostor foul." Milton.

The condition, character, or practice of an impostor. Milton.

A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. [R.] Fuller.

Characterized by imposture; deceitful. "Impostrous pretense of knowledge." Grote.

Imposture; cheating. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating. From new legends And fill the world with follies and impostures. Johnson.

Done by imposture. [Obs.]

Impostrous; deceitful. Strictness fales and impostrous. Beau. & Fl.

Imposture. [Obs.] Fuller.

Imposture practiced on one's self; self-deceit. South.

as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages. There is a close affinity between imposture and credulity. Sir G. C. Lewis.

The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration. [Written corruptly imposthumation.] Wiseman.

An abscess; a swelling filled with purulent matter. [Written corruptly imposthume.]

Pertaining to, or written by, a bard or bards. "Bardish impostures." Selden.

An impost. [Obs.]

One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.