imposts in English
noun
1
a tax or similar compulsory payment.
Article I, Section 8 allows for the collection of ‘taxes, duties, imposts and excises’ but only ‘for revenue necessary’ to finance the government and not to protect any business or industry from international competition.
2
the top course of a pillar that supports an arch.
This space was ornamented with low relief sculpture of winged sun disks and wreaths located on the pedimented impost blocks between the arches.
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1. ‘The imposts of the ground-storey piers were simplified and the moulded Archivolts were omitted.’.
2. The Confederative diet further decreed the increase of the army, granted imposts on the property of the nobility and clergy, and established a commission of war dependent on the diet only, in order to check the influence of the permanent council of state, which their spoliators had created, for the purpose of destroying the national power.