To keep up, impose or bring into effect something, not necessarily by force.
To give strength or force to; to affirm, to emphasize.
to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way
To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.
To establish or apply by authority.
To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
to be an inconvenience (on or upon)