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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 343 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IMPOST (through the O. Fr. from See also:Lat. impositum, a thing laid upon another; the See also:modern See also:French is impot)  , a tax or See also:tribute, and particularly a See also:duty levied on imported or exported merchandise (see See also:TAXATION, CUSTOMS DUTIES, See also:EXCISE, &c.) . In See also:architecture, " See also:impost " (in See also:German See also:Kaempfer) is a See also:term applied in See also:Italian to the doorpost, but in See also:English restricted to the upper member of the same, from which the See also:arch springs . This may either be in the same See also:plane as the arch See also:mould or projecting and forming a See also:plain See also:band or elaborately moulded, in which See also:case the See also:mouldings are known as impost mouldings . Sometimes the See also:complete See also:entablature of a smaller See also:order is employed, as in the case of the Venetian or See also:Palladian window, where the central opening has an arch resting on the entablature of the pilasters which flank the smaller window on each See also:side . In Romanesque and See also:Gothic See also:work the capitals with their abaci take the See also:place of the impost mouldings .

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