Impost Definition

ĭmpōst
noun
A tax; esp., a duty on imported goods.
Webster's New World
The weight assigned to a horse in a handicap race.
Webster's New World
The top part of a pillar, pier, or wall supporting an arch.
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Synonyms:
verb
To classify (imported goods) in order to assess the proper taxes.
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Other Word Forms of Impost

Noun

Singular:
impost
Plural:
imposts

Origin of Impost

  • Obsolete French from Old French from Medieval Latin impostum from Latin neuter of impostus variant of impositus past participle of impōnere to place upon impose

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French imposte from Italian imposta from Latin feminine past participle of impōnere to place upon impose

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French impost, from Latin impositus, past participle of impōnere (“to impose”).

    From Wiktionary

  • From Italian imposta, from Latin imposta

    From Wiktionary

Impost Sentence Examples

  • It also meant a tax or impost, payable in money.

  • The policy of protection was further accentuated by raising the impost on corn from 5 to 7 francs per hectolitre (23/4 bushels).

  • The Chamber, though convinced of the danger of this reform, the perils of which were incisively demonstrated by Sella, voted by an overwhelming majority for an immediate reduction of the impost by onefourth, and its complete abolition within four years.

  • Notwithstanding this prospective loss of revenue, parliament showed great reluctance to vote any new impost, although hardly a year previously it had sanctioned (3oth June 1879) Depretiss scheme for spending during the next eighteen years 43,200,000 in building 5000 kilometres of railway, an expenditure not wholly justified by the importance of the lines, and useful principally as a source of electoral sops for the constituents of ministerial deputies.

  • At last in 1710 the controller-general, Nicolas Des - marets, established a new impost, the "tenth" (dixieme), which had some analogy with the project of Boisguilbert.

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Words Starting With

IIMIMP

Words Ending With

TSTOST

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