2 entries under this word

Imprint

Ĭm'print, n.

noun

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.

Im-print’, v. t.

verbtransitive

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.