† imprimeryn.
Obsolete.
1. A printing-office or printing-house.
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society > communication > printing > printing trade > [noun] > printing establishment
printing house1553
house?a1563
press1579
printing shop1589
printing office1600
print house1607
printery1638
typography1660
imprimery1663
chapel1688
print shop1845
1663 Signet Office Docquet Bk. Aug. (P.R.O.) A new erected office for the surveyeing of the Imprimery and printing presses and to grant the same to Roger Le Strange Esqr., together with the sole lycencing of all ballads [etc.].
1679 in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 271 Several persons..furnisht..an Imprimery, with all the necessaries thereof.
a1685 Ld. Arlington To Oxf. Univ. (T.) You have those conveniences for a great imprimerie, which other universities cannot boast of.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Imprimery, a Printing House.
2. Printing.
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society > communication > printing > [noun]
print1499
impression1509
printing1509
impressing1530
press1579
imprimatur1640
typography1646
imprimery1681
presswork1728
imprimature1813
imprint1899
1681 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 529 Afterward he surveyed the places of imprimerie.
3. A print or impression.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > [noun] > a print
impression1559
print1585
stamp1613
imprimery1681
reproduction1701
1681 Blount's Glossographia (ed. 5) Imprimery, a print, or impression.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Imprimery..an Impression, or Print.
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