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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Reimposer, to reimpose, to recharge.

1675–6 in J. T. Wheeler Madras (1861) III. 418 Pretending to sell the Kings paddy here customs free..and to re-impose an avaldar.

1744 Acts Associate Presbytery Introd. p. vii Abjured Prelacy was again reimposed after the Restoration of King Charles II.

1791 C. Coote Hist. Eng. IX. xvii. vi. 302 Though a reduction of the land-tax might reasonably have been expected, it was reimposed in the same proportion which had prevailed during the war.

1812 R. Wilson Private Diary (1862) I. 123 Russia..scarcely even scrupled to re-impose the Turkish yoke upon her allies, the Servians.

1855 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 138 1619 We have commenced a career of reimposing taxes.

1883 Manch. Examiner 26 Nov. 5/2 We ought to..reimpose the sliding-scale duty on corn.

1921 School Rev. 29 759 Many are urging that school fees should be reimposed in the secondary schools, since, they say, the cost of education is too much for our resources.

1972 Rep. Tribunal Events Londonderry in Bloody Sunday, 1972 (2001) 14 At the end of October, 8 Infantry Brigade..was given instructions progressively to regain the initiative from the terrorists and reimpose the rule of law on the Creggan and Bogside.

2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. xii. 327 Some modern echinoderms—notably the sea cucumbers or holothurians—have reimposed a form of bilateral symmetry back on to the secondary radial symmetry, as the internal structure still reveals.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. ii. 463 If they complain and make good their complaints, the whole parish is reimposed next year in order to reimburse them. View more context for this quotation