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▪ I. † imprime, v. Obs.
Also 6–7 em-.
[f. im-1 + prime a. or n., or L. prīm-us first. The history of the hunting sense is obscure, and it may be a word of different origin.]
1. trans. Hunting. (See quots.)
1575Turbervile Bk. Venerie 242 When he is hunted and doth first leave the herde we say that he is syngled or emprymed. 1590Cokaine Treat. Hunting C iv b, Put your hounds softly vpon, for he wil fall oft at the beginning; which although the Huntsman see, yet must he giue libertie to the yoong houndes to imprime him themselues. 1656Blount Glossogr., Emprimed, a term used by Hunters when a Hart first forsakes the Herd. 1706Phillips, To imprime (in Hunting), to unharbour, rouze, or dislodge a Wild Beast; A Deer is also said to be imprimed when she is forc'd to forsake the Herd. 1775in Ash.
2. To begin, commence, initiate, enter upon.
1637Wotton in Reliq. (1651) 441 To trouble you..about the yet imperfected, though wel imprimed, Business of New-Windsor.
Hence imˈpriming vbl. n., beginning, commencement; entering upon action.
c1633Wotton in Reliq. (1651) 455 After their impriming in France I could wish them to mount the Pirenies into Spaine. a1639Ibid. 6 These were both their springings and Imprimings, as I may call them.
▪ II. † imˈprime, n. Hunting. Obs.
[f. prec. vb.]
The act of ‘impriming’ a deer.
1590Cokaine Treat. Hunting C iv b, And being sure it his owne Deere, he may giue one gibbet, at euery imprime, and no more. 1703Rules Civility 116 If you be a hunting the Buck [with a noble person],..suffer him to come in first to the death or imprime. 1741Compl. Fam. Piece ii. i. 293 If he be sunk, and the Hounds thrust him up, 'tis call'd an Imprime, and the Company all sound a Racheat. |