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imponent, a. and n.|ɪmˈpəʊnənt|
[ad. L. impōnent-em, pres. pple. of impōnĕre: see prec.]
A. adj. That imposes.
a1882T. H. Green Prol. to Ethics §323 Were there no Church..Moral duties would still be associated with the imagination of an imponent authority, whose injunctions they would be supposed to be.
B. n. One who imposes.
1842Pusey Crisis Eng. Ch. 45 While the Bishop..regards the framers of Edward the Sixth's Articles as the imponents of ours, he sanctions the Catholic interpretation as much as ourselves. 1850C. Wordsworth Occas. Serm. Ser. i. 132 The Articles are the Articles of the Church. She is the imponent. 1863J. G. Murphy Comm. Gen. xvii. 9–11 The parent is the voluntary imponent, and the child merely the passive recipient of the sign of the covenant. |