imposing

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

IMPO'SING, participle present tense Laying on; enjoining; deceiving. 1. Commanding; adapted to impress forcibly; as an imposing air or matter. --Large and imposing edifices, embosomed in the groves of some rich valley.
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