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⚖️ To impose 🕯️ To place formally 📜 To pledge
to imponed

to imponed

9.9
To give something as a guarantee for a promise
  • verb
  • Archaic
translation icon : pignorar
  • In medieval courts, property was often imponed as a guarantee for fulfilling obligations.

Examples

  • The merchant imponed a sum of gold to secure the contract under the old law.

  • He imponed his property as collateral for the loan.

  • Before modern banking, valuables were imponed to ensure trust in business deals.

  • The merchant imponed the jewels for safekeeping.

  • In medieval courts, property was often imponed as a guarantee for fulfilling obligations.

  • The merchant imponed a sum of gold to secure the contract under the old law.

  • Before modern banking, valuables were imponed to ensure trust in business deals.

Synonyms

to collateralize
vsto imponed
  • Formal
3 9.3

To use something valuable as security for a loan

is a broader, older term for legal pledges not limited to financial assets
to ante
vsto imponed
2 8.9

To pay money in advance as a required deposit or guarantee

involves offering something as a legal guarantee rather than prepaying money
to impawn
vsto imponed
  • Archaic
9.9

Give something valuable to a pawnshop to get money

is used more generally for legal guarantees not only for loans
to hypothecate
vsto imponed
  • Specialized
9.9

Give property like a car or house as security for a loan while keeping and using it

is about depositing or giving up items instead of keeping possession

Antonyms

to release
∞ 1.8

To let someone or something go free from being held

How Binding

to mortgage
  • Specialized
25 5.7
to imponed
  • Archaic
9.9
to pawn
55 5.6
to deposit
63 2.2
to offer
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

imponed infinitive
imponed past
imponed past participle
imponing present participle
impones third person singular

Morphology

imponed = impose (transparent) = impon + ed

The sense is an extended/archaic meaning of 'impose' (to pledge/deposit), but morphologically it is the past form of the verb 'impose'.

Etymology

Imponed comes from Latin in- 'on' and ponere 'to put', and it is like the word deposit, which means to 'put down' something for safe keeping. So to imponed property as a guarantee was to 'place it down' as security for a promise.