impone

verb /ɪmˈpoʊn/

1. To stake; to wager; to pledge.

   obsolete, transitive

   Against the which he has imponed, as I take it, six French rapiers and poniards.

Where it comes from

From Latin imponere, impositum (“to place upon”); prefix im- (“in”) + ponere (“to place”). See imposition.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry impone (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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