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c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 372 Ek oþere seyn þat þorugh Impressions [v.r. enpressiounnys] As yf a wight hath faste a þing in mynde..cometh swich auysions.

c1386 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 363 In hire sleepe right for impression, Of hire Mirour she hadde Avision.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 267 Madnesse kindleth diseases in the mynde, bycause that it worketh in them..phantasticall impressions.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 80 Being over-rigid and severe, his Sermons made no Impression on his English Auditory.

1700 W. Congreve Way of World iv. i. 52 How shall I receive him? In what figure shall I give his Heart the first Impression? There is a great deal in the first Impression.

c1755 in R. Jackson Hist. Rev. Pennsylvania (1759) 270 It must have been while he was under the first Impressions given him by the Governor to our Disadvantage.

1759 R. Jackson Hist. Rev. Pennsylvania 270 While he was under the first Impressions given him by the Governor to our Disadvantage.

1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xlix. 186 If they had made no impression upon his heart.

1773 T. Smollett Ode to Indep. 30 He..deeply felt the impression of her charms.

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) v. 57 First impressions, you know, often go a long way, and last a long time.

1847 H. Miller (title) First Impressions of England and its people.

1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 560 A deep impression had been made on the minds of Englishmen.

1924 E. O'Neill Welded i. 90 The first impression of her whole personality is one of charm, partly innate, partly imposed by years of self-discipline.