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enstamp, v.|ɛnˈstæmp|
Also 7–8 instamp.
[f. en-1 + stamp v.]
To stamp, imprint (marks, figures, etc.) on anything. Also fig.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. v. vi. 31 Cunobeline (for so upon his coines his name is instamped). Ibid. v. vi. (1632) 32 Many coynes instamped of him. c1630Jackson Creed iv. viii. Wks. III. 135 There must be such a correspondence as is between the character and the letter enstamped. 1653Gataker Vind. Annot. Jer. 106 A natural power enstamped on them by God their Creator. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. ii. (1852) App. 221 On the other side were enstamped the towers of Zion. 1753Ess. Celibacy 79 Nature is a system..instamped with the goodness of the Deity. 1827Gentl. Mag. XCVII. ii. 33 Our Gray had likewise enstamped upon his imagination the forms and shadows of things which are presented to us in this visible creation. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 86 The ploughman..on his cattle hath enstamped the brand.
Hence enˈstamped ppl. a.
1597Daniel Civ. Wars vi. xxxvii, Make, that instamped Characters may send Abroad to Thousands, Thousand Men's Intent. |