An unwelcome burden, presence, or obligation.
A trick or deception put or laid on others.
The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined.
Arrangement of a printed product’s pages on the printer's sheet so as to have the pages in proper order in the final product.
A task imposed on a student as punishment.
A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.
Necessity, understood as a logical or other philosophical principle, or as a law or force of nature.