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  • But perhaps _imponed_ is pledged, _impawned_, so spelt to ridicule the affectation of uttering English words with French pronunciation.

    Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746

  • But, on: six Barbary horses against six French swords, their assigns, and three liberal conceited carriages: that's the French bet against the Danish: why is this all imponed, as you call it?

    Hamlet William Shakespeare 1590

  • I should pretend to an equality: no man can completely know another, but by knowing himself, which is the utmost extent of human wisdom.] [Footnote V. 59: _He has imponed_,] _i. e._, to lay down as a stake or wager.

    Hamlet William Shakespeare 1590

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