The Caribbean islands are called the West Indies to correct the name, Indies, mistakenly given by Christopher Columbus. Columbus thought he had reached the Indies of Asia.
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c.1300, impose a tax on, from Old French taxer impose a tax (13c.), from Latin taxare evaluate, estimate, assess, handle, also censure, charge, probably a frequentative form of tangere to touch (see tangent). Sense of burden, put a strain on first recorded 1670s; that of censure, reprove is from 1560s.