Hamlet vocabulary

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impone

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Definition:
to pledge; to stake

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OSRIC The king, sir, hath wager'd with him six Barbary horses: against the which he has imponed, as I take it, six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdle, hangers, and so: three of the carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy, very responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages, and of very liberal conceit.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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His sevencoloured’s soot (Ochone! Ochonal!) 2 and his imponence one heap lumpblock Why so mucky spick bridges span our Fluminian road. (Mogoul!). And rivers burst out like weeming racesround joydrinks for the fewnrally, 3 where every feaster’s a foster’s other, fiannians P.C. Helmut’s in the cotton-wood, listnin. all.

James Joyce. Finnegans Wake
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