imposable

English

Etymology

From Middle French imposable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpəʊzəbəl/

Adjective

imposable (comparative more imposable, superlative most imposable)

1. 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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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)

Anagrams

• biosample

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French

Etymology

From imposer +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.po.zabl/

• Audio

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Adjective

imposable (plural imposables)

1. (finance) imposable; that can be imposed

Further reading

• “imposable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.