imposer's

Updated: June 2, 2025

But every rational adult has a governing power: namely, that of governing himself. Ib. p. 412. That though a subject ought to take an oath in the sense of his rulers who impose it, as far as he can understand it; yet a man that taketh an oath from a robber to save his life is not always bound to take it in the imposer's sense, if he take it not against the proper sense of the words.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4.