imposable
English
Etymology
From Middle French imposable.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪmˈpəʊzəbəl/
Adjective
imposable (comparative more imposable, superlative most imposable)
- Capable of being imposed or laid on.
- 1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], OCLC 228724047:
- they were neither necessary to be explicitly acknowledged, before they were convincingly revealed, nor simply and absolutely imposable on any particular man
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for imposable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.po.zabl/
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Further reading
- “imposable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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