impost

• While they will rise up against a vexatious impost, they crouch before a system of which the impost is the smallest evil. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
• (467) The Londoners objected altogether to this impost, on the grounds that they had never been consulted on the matter, and had never given their assent. —  London and the Kingdom - Volume I
• There are also arches with single soffits, which have over them a kind of hood, similar to that over doorways of square-edged rib-work, projecting a few inches from the face of the wall, carried round the arch, and either dying into the impost or continued straight down to the ground. —  The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.
• Sometimes the curvature of the arch does not immediately spring from the capital or impost, but is raised or stilted Q. What parts of Norman churches do we generally find vaulted A. In cathedral and large conventual churches built in the Norman style we find the crypts and aisles vaulted with stone, but not the nave or choir; and over the vaulting of the aisles was the triforium. —  The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.
• That obnoxious impost was even then, as it has subsequently been, a great bone of contention, and proved the casus belli of many a wordy war. —  Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities

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