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/ɪmprˈɪnt/ /ˈɪmprɪnt/ Listen

noun

Imprint n. Whatever is impressed or imprinted; the impress or mark left by something; specifically, the name of the printer or publisher (usually) with the time and place of issue, in the title-page of a book, or on any printed sheet. "That imprint of their hands."

verb

Imprint v. t. (past & past part. imptrinted; pres. part. imprinting)

To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp. "And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands."

To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates, stamps, or the like; to print the mark (figures, letters, etc., upon something). "Nature imprints upon whate'er we see, That has a heart and life in it, "Be free.""

To fix indelibly or permanently, as in the mind or memory; to impress. "Ideas of those two different things distinctly imprinted on his mind."

(Ethology) To create or acquire (a behavioral pattern) by the process of imprinting.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Imprint" Quotes from Famous Books

... the will is the rational appetite, when the rectitude of the reason which is called truth is imprinted on the will on account of its nighness to the reason, this imprint retains the name of truth; and hence it is that justice sometimes goes ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... of New York, to become the Eastern publishers of the McGuffey Readers and other books, and a duplicate set of plates was sent to New York. From these plates, editions of the readers were manufactured, largely at Claremont, N.H., bearing on the title page the imprint of Clark, Austin & Smith, ...

— A History of the McGuffey Readers • Henry H. Vail

... Mr. Goldsmith oblige her mother with a chamber pot full of coals!" Truly these were hours of ill-at-ease. The largest collection of the various relics of woodcuts used in the chap book literature, "printed for the Company of Flying Stationers, also Walking Stationers,"—for such is a portion of the imprint to be found on several of the early Chap Books printed at Banbury—is to be seen in the Library of the British Museum; but the richest collection of these celebrated little rarities of Toy Books ...

— Banbury Chap Books - And Nursery Toy Book Literature • Edwin Pearson

... own day, when so many are eager to write, and confident that they can write, and when the press is sending forth by the ton that which is called literature, but which somehow lacks the imprint of immortality, it is of the first importance to revive the study of synonyms as a distinct branch of rhetorical culture. Prevalent errors need at times to be noted and corrected, but the teaching of pure English speech is the best defense against all that ...

— English Synonyms and Antonyms - With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions • James Champlin Fernald

... Why can we not receive Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders more than once? A. We cannot receive Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders more than once, because they imprint ...

— Baltimore Catechism No. 2 (of 4) • Anonymous

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