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impost [′im‚pōst ‚ärch]

(architecture)

The highest part of a column, pillar, pier, or wall upon which the end of an arch rests.

impost

1. A masonry unit or course, often distinctively profiled, which receives and distributes the thrust at each end of an arch. Also see abutment, springer.

2. A vertical member in a gemel or double window taking the place of a mullion; an integral mullion.

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No references found			The Custom-House marker imprinted it, with a stencil and black paint, on pepper-bags, and baskets of anatto, and cigar-boxes, and bales of all kinds of dutiable merchandise, in testimony that these commodities had paid the impost, and gone regularly through the office. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context One morning, I will suppose, some one enters my shop, and says to me: 'Father Coppenole, there is this and there is that, the Demoiselle of Flanders wishes to save her ministers, the grand bailiff is doubling the impost on shagreen, or something else,'--what you will. Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; The Constitution of The United States by History Documents View in context			implicit implicit differentiation implicit enumeration implicit function implicit function theorem Implicit Functions implicit link implicit memory implicit parallelism implicit programming implicit type conversion implied indemnification implies implode implosion implosion weapon Implosive Consonants impluvium import import filter Imported Plant imposed date imposed load Imposition Impossibility impost impost block Impotence impotent impound Impounding impounding reservoir IMPP imprecise probability impregnate impregnated bit impregnated cloth impregnated timber Impregnation Impregnation of Wood Impresario impressed current impressed voltage impression impression block impression cylinder Impressionism impressment imprimatur Imprint imprinter			impossible to break impossible to calculate impossible to change impossible to defeat impossible to describe impossible to explain impossible to express impossible to influence impossible to measure impossible to overcome impossible to reach impossible to resist impossible to reverse impossible to stop impossible to translate impossible to understand impossible to vanquish impossible to weigh impossible to withstand Impossible tribar Impossible trident illusion impossibleness impossibleness Impossibles Impossibles impossibly impossibly impost impost block Impost sulle donazioni Imposta Imposta Imposta Comunale sugli Immobili Imposta Comunale sugli Immobili Imposta Comunale sugli Immobili Imposta Comunale sugli Immobili Imposta di successione Imposta fissa Imposta in franchigia Imposta Locale Sui Redditi Imposta Regionale sulle Attività Produttive Imposta sugli immobili Imposta sul reddito Imposta Sul Reddito delle Persone Fisiche Imposta sul Reddito delle Persone Giuridiche Imposta sul Valore Aggiunto Imposte sul Reddito delle Società imposter imposter imposters imposters Imposters of the Deep Society Imposthumate Imposthumation Imposthume Imposto de consume Imposto de exportacao Imposto de importacao

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