reimpose (reimpoz)

t. [ The parish is afterwards reimposed , to reimburse those five or six. Adam Smith , Wealth of Nations, v. 2. 3. To place or lay again: as, to reimpose burdens upon the poor. reimposition (rē-im-po-zish'on), n. [ ré imposition ; as re- + imposition .] 1. The act of reimposing: as, the reimposition of a tax. The attempt of the distinguished leaders of the party opposite to form a government, based as it was at that period on an intention to propose the reimposition of a fixed duty on corn, entirely failed. 2. A tax levied anew. Gladstone. Such reimpositions are always over and above the taille of the particular year in which they are laid on. Adam Smith , Wealth of Nations, v. 2. reimpre (rē-im-pres'), v . t . [ re- + impre .] To impre anew. Religion will glide by degrees out of the mind unle it be reinvigorated and reimpre ed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example. Johnson, Milton. reimpre ion (rē-im-presh'on), n. [ In an Appendix I have entered into particulars as to my reimpre ion of the present poem. F. Hall, Pref. of Lauder's Dewtie of Kyngis (E. E. T. S.), p. v. 2. The reprint or reprinting of a work. IMG:content-1892.png:[blocks in formation] As skilful Riders rein with diff'rent force A new-back'd Courser and a well-train'd Horse. Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. She [Queen Elizabeth] was mounted on a milk-white horse, which she reined with peculiar grace and dignity. Scott , Kenilworth, xxx. 2. To restrain; control. Being once chafed, he cannot Be rein'd again to temperance; then he speaks What's in his heart. Shak ., Cor., iii. 3. 28. 3. To carry stiffly, as a horse does its head or neck under a bearing-rein. To rein in, to curb; keep under restraint, as by reins. The cause why the Apostles did thus conform the Christians as much as might be according to the pattern of the Jews was to rein them in by this mean the more, and to make them cleave the better. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, iv. 11. IMG:content-1893.png:[blocks in formation] To rein up, to halt; bring a horse to a stand. But, when they won a rising hill, He bade his followers hold them still:... " Rein up ; our presence would impair The fame we come too late to share." Scott, Lord of the Isles, vi. 18.