To establish or apply by authority.
Congress imposed new tariffs.
To be an inconvenience (on or upon)
I don't wish to impose upon you.
To enforce: compel to behave in a certain way
Social relations impose courtesy
To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.