Ĭm'print1, n.
n. [See infra.] Whatever is impressed or printed on the title page, as of a book; especially, the name of the printer or publisher, with the time and place of publishment.
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n. [See infra.] Whatever is impressed or printed on the title page, as of a book; especially, the name of the printer or publisher, with the time and place of publishment.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. IMPRINTED; p. pr. & vb. n. IMPRINTING.] [O. Eng. empreint, from Fr. empreint, p. p. of empreindre, to imprint; Lat. imprimere, to impress, imprint; Sp. emprentar, It. imprentare, improntare]
Sense 1. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.
Sense 2. To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of types; to print.
Sense 3. To fix indelibly or permanently, as on the mind or memory; to impress.
Ideas of those two different things distinctly imprinted on his mind. Locke.