imprintn.

Brit.

/ˈɪmprɪnt/, U.S.

/ˈɪmˌprɪnt/

Forms: Middle English em-, enpraynt(e, enprinte, enprynte, 1500s imprynte, Scottish imprent, 1600s– imprint.

Etymology: Middle English type empreynte , -printe , < French empreinte ‘a stampe, a violent assault’ (Cotgrave), participial noun < empreind-re (past participle empreint ); the prefix subsequently conformed to Latin: see imprint v. Empreinte was a formation of the same class as armée, assise, conduite, etc.

I. Something imprinted by pressure, and related uses.

a. A figure impressed or imprinted upon something; a mark produced by pressure on a surface; an impression, stamp.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > [noun] > imprint

impression1398

imprint1483

signature1582

impress1606

impressurea1616

stampa1652

handstamp1676

imprimature1768

imprimatur1970

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 109 b/2 Thy seal wherein is then~prynte of the crosse.

1526 W. Bonde Rosary sig. Ciii The Vernacle, whiche is the very simylitude and imprinte of thy blessed and glorious visage.

1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Eij As into the wax the seals imprent Is lyke a seale.

1835 J. Batman in K. Cornwallis Panorama New World (1859) I. 411 I requested the chief..to give the imprint of his mark.

1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend v. 231 I showed you..a boulder Marked with the imprint of his shoulder.

b. figurative. A character impressed upon something; an attribute communicated by, and constituting evidence of, some agency; ‘stamp’, ‘impression’.

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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > character or nature > [noun] > imparting character > imparted character

printc1350

imprint1609

express1667

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lxxvii. sig. F The vacant leaues thy mindes imprint will beare.

1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. xxxii. 490 He has left upon the Continent an imprint of beneficence which time can not efface.

1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. xi. 215 The form-giver has stamped his thought..and fire has made that imprint permanent.

c. A representation or type of something.

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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > that which typically exhibits a quality

image?1534

abridgement1605

abstracta1616

proverb1659

incarnation1821

imprint1857

embodiment1868

1857–8 E. H. Sears Athanasia xvii. 148 Has God hung down these pictures..as the most perfect imprints of the good and fair?

†a. The condition of being printed, printed form, ‘print’ (in in enprinte). Obsolete.

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society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > state of being printed

imprint1480

print1932

1480 W. Caxton Descr. Brit. 57 I haue sette them in enprinte according to the translacion of Treuisa.

1485 W. Caxton in tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. aij^v/1 I late had fynysshed in enprynte the book of the noble & vyctoryous kyng Arthur.

b. The printing of a book, etc.

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society > communication > printing > [noun]

print1499

impression1509

printing1509

impressing1530

press1579

imprimatur1640

typography1646

imprimery1681

presswork1728

imprimature1813

imprint1899

1899 N.E.D. at Imprint Mod. (Review) In Mr. Martineau's opinion Zurich is the most probable place of imprint.

c. Something printed, an ‘impression’ of a writing.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > a print

print1507

impression1559

impress1877

imprint1882

1882 Notes & Queries 6th Ser. V. 300/1 An imprint of a part of Roger Dodsworth's Yorkshire collections.

a. The name of the publisher, place of publication, and date, printed in a book, usually at the foot of the title page (formerly often at the end of the book); also, the name of printer and place of printing, printed at the end of the book, or on the back of the title page: these are distinguished as the publisher's imprint and printer's imprint.

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society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > colophon or imprint

epigraph1633

colophon1774

imprint1790

imprimatur1970

1790 Brit. Crit. Feb. (T.) The imprint, as it is called in technical language, ‘E Typographeo Clarendoniano’, or ‘At the Clarendon Press’.

1860 G. A. Sala Lady Chesterfield's Lett. Pref. 3 Many professional critics confine their labours to reviewing the title and imprint of a book.

1893 E. G. Duff Early Printed Bks. 138 From the time of Caxton's death, in 1491, to the time when his own name first appears in an imprint, Wynkyn de Worde printed five books.

b. Extended use: see quots.

ΚΠ

1876 C. A. Cutter Rules Dict. Catal. in Public Libraries U.S.A.: Special Rep.: Pt. II (Dept. Interior, Bureau Educ.) §136 The imprint consists of place of publication, publisher's name, date, number of volumes, typographic form, number of pages, and number of maps, engravings, and the like.

1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Oct. 1276/5 (advt.) Kahn & Averill (imprint of Stanmore Press Ltd.).

1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Feb. 121/4 (advt.) Diana Burfield who, before her resignation last summer after seventeen years with the imprint, was editorial director of Tavistock [Publications].

4. (With capital initial.) An old-style typeface, named after the periodical for which it was designed.

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society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > old style or face

old style1868

imprint1913

Plantin1914

old-face1931

1913 Imprint Jan. p. vi The newly designed type in which our pages are presented to the reader was cut by the Lanston Monotype Company at our instance... The type has been christened Imprint Old Face.

1934 A. F. Johnson Type Designs iv. 120 The first acceptable book type to be cut after the Old Style of 1860 was the ‘Monotype’ Imprint of 1913.

1966 P. M. Handover in K. Day Bk. Typogr. 1815–1965 160 Imprint was a reformed Caslon, regularised on the principles that had inspired old style which now resulted in another more distinguished face.

†II. An assault or charge.

5. An onset, assault, charge. Cf. impression n. 1b. Obsolete.

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society > armed hostility > attack > charge > [noun]

reseOE

forec1275

shakec1380

birr1382

frushc1400

impression1402

imprint1490

race1535

charge1569

élan1880

charging1887

1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xx. 62 So moche he made atte the first empraynte, that ar euere his spere was broken, he threwe doune ded syx of his enemyes.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xx. 453 Eche of theim overthrew vii knightes at that enpraynt.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

imprintv.

/ɪmˈprɪnt/

Forms: α. Middle English–1500s em-, en-, -print, -prynt, -prent, Middle English enpreynt, emprende, enprend. β. Middle English inprent, impraynt, imprend, Middle English (1500s Scottish) imprent, 1500s imprynt, Middle English– imprint.

Etymology: Middle English empreynte-n , -prent- , -print- , partly < Old French empreinte-r, -priente-r, a secondary verb (through empreinte noun) < empreind-re (past participle empreint ) ‘to print, also to assaile or set on with violence’ (Cotgrave) < empriembre < late popular Latin impremĕre , for classical Latin imprimĕre to impress, imprint; partly (in form emprende ) immediately < empreind-re ; the eventual form being largely due to the French past participle empreint ‘imprinted’, and the prefix conformed to Latin as in imprint n.: compare print v.

a. transitive. To mark by pressure; to impress, stamp (a figure, etc. on something); to delineate by pressure. In first quot., to take an impression of (a solid body).

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society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > imprint [verb (transitive)] > a mark

impressc1374

imprintc1386

enstamp1611

impact1677

α.

c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 873 This fresshe May..In warm wex hath emprented [Harl. emprynted] the clyket And Damyan..The cliket countrefeted pryuely.

c1420 J. Lydgate Story of Thebes 901 The Carectys of his woundes olde Upon his fete emprented wonder depe.

1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) i. iii. sig. b.v ^v Vnto whome we haue enprynted in the forhede the sygne of y^e crosse.

β. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 262/1 Inprentyn (MSS. K. & S. imprentyn), inprimo.1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 26 Leaving with them a Seale which did imprint with inke this word REII.1627 M. Drayton Quest of Cynthia in Battaile Agincourt 136 Then looking on the ground, The shape of her most dainty foot, Imprinted there I found.1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 33 The Volto Santo, or print of our Sauiours face, which he imprinted in the handkercher of S. Veronica.1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood iii. 19 Each sometimes stops and slowly imprints a deeper footstep in the fallen leaves.

†b. To portray (by some printing process). Obsolete.

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society > communication > printing > [verb (transitive)] > portray by printing

imprint1606

typographize1811

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > print or reproduce [verb (transitive)]

stamp1604

imprint1606

reproduce1838

1606 No-body & Some-body sig. D4 Let him be straight imprinted to the life: His picture shall be set on euery stall.

†2. To impress (letters or characters) on paper or the like by means of type; to print v. (a book or writing). Obsolete.

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society > communication > printing > [verb (transitive)]

imprint1477

impress1508

print1511

stamp1555

press1579

pull1653

to take off1707

to throw off1720

strike1759

typefy1856

α.

1477 W. Caxton in Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (1877) lf. 73 Here endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophhres enprynted, by me William Caxton at Westmestre the yere of our lord . m.cccc.lxxvij.

1483 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (new ed.) sig. aii By cause thys sayd book is ful of holsom wysedom..I have purposed to enprynte it.

1493 Petronylla (Pynson) (ad fin.) Empryntyd by Rychard Pynson.

1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. iiv^v Yf it were enpryntyd allone by itself & put in a lytyll plaunflet.

?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature v. sig. Fvij Enprent their declaracyon.

β. c1500 Love & Compl. Mars & Venus (colophon) Thys in pryntide in westmoster in kyng strete. For me Julianus Notarii.1509 in A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) (title page) Inprentyd in the Cyte of London in Fletestre at the signe of Saynt George By Rycharde Pynson.1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxxxvj Willyam Tyndale had newly translated and imprinted the Newe Testament in Englishe.1556 W. Lauder Compend. Tractate Dewtie of Kyngis sig. C4 Imprentit, In the ȝeir of God Ane m.v.c.lvi.1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. 114 (margin) So are the woordes set down in three auncient copies: and not..as in some bookes it is imprinted.1611 Bible (King James) (title page) Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie.1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxx. 176 Clean paper, fit to receive whatsoever..shall be imprinted in them.1709 J. Swift Merlin's Prophecy In an old edition of Merlin's prophecies, imprinted at London..in the year 1530.

3. figurative.

a. To impress on or fix in the mind, memory, etc.; formerly often, to impress on one's own mind, consider or remember carefully.

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the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > retain in the memory [verb (transitive)] > fix in the mind

imprintc1374

grave1390

printa1425

minda1500

stamp1662

brand1848

α.

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) v. metr. iv. 129 Ymagynacions of sensible thinges weeren enpreynted [Add. MS. (a1420) inprentid] in to sowles fro bodies with-owte forth.

c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 934 Ye been so depe enprented in my thoght.

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. v What that she sawe both in minde & thought She all emprynteth.

c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine iii. 580 Soo enprended it is On-to hir herte.

1493 Festivall (1515) 125 These vysyons were soo enprynted in this chyldes mynde.

1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados xii. x. 16 Than of ane greter bargane in his entent All suddanly the figure dyd emprent [a1522 imprent].

β. c1374 [see α. ]. a1466 R. Taverham in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 321 Sorowe is inprended in myn hert.1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xiii. 48 Desirynge the presence of Eneas by Imagynacyon impraynted wythin the fauntasme of her entendemente.a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xvi. sig. K.vi Some..haue w^t often thinking theron, imprinted y^t feare so sore in their imaginacion.1576 A. Fleming tr. Sulpicius in Panoplie Epist. 24 Imprint this in thy memorie.1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 42 Not otherwise then to the law of nature and of equity imprinted in us seems correspondent.1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 415. ¶6 Every thing that is Majestick, imprints an Awfullness and Reverence on the Mind of the Beholder.1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 95 It is the business of the women to notice every thing that passes, to imprint it on their memories.1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith ii. 75 As we are incorrectly wont to say, imprint themselves on the memory; but to speak more justly, which memory firmly retains.

b. To impress (a quality, character, or distinguishing mark) on or in a person or thing; to communicate, impart. In passive of a quality, etc.: To exist strongly marked in or on a person, etc.

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the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > impart

lendOE

common1340

parta1382

conveyc1386

impart1477

give1481

imprint1526

communicate1534

partake1561

impute1594

participate1598

communea1616

stamp1641

shove?a1650

conne1674

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. biii^v Why than shulde we be about to imprint suche swetenesse in to carnall affections?

1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 53 Euen in the vices themselues there remain emprinted some leauinges thereof.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 60 Repugnant to sound reason, and that wisedome which the Divine hand hath imprinted in his workes.

1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination iii. 523 God alone, when first his active hand Imprints the secret byass of the soul.

1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. i. iii. 118 The misery and degradation which are at present imprinted on the very face of the soil.

a. transferred. To make an impression or impressed figure upon; to stamp or impress (something) with a figure, etc.

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society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > imprint [verb (transitive)]

printa1387

imprintc1400

engrave1542

characterize1581

character1589

impress1598

impression1612

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xxii. 239 Money..Of lether emprented or of papyre.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 1 The way..sa deip imprented with the futstepis of thair foirbears.

1717 M. Prior Henry & Emma 655 She..sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands.

1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein I. 3 A land never before imprinted by the foot of man.

1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) xiv. 452 The roche..pointed out..as imprinted with the footstep of our Saviour.

b. figurative (transferred from 3a and 3b). To impress with some feeling, quality, etc.; also of the quality, To be impressed upon, manifest itself in.

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society > communication > indication > marking > mark [verb (transitive)] > a person with some condition or quality

record1580

write1594

impicture1595

imprint1712

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > character or nature > impart a character or nature to [verb (transitive)] > stamp a character upon

impress1413

printa1450

mint1664

imprint1712

stamp1780

1712 J. Gay Arachne in A. Pope Misc. Poems 87 Dread Omnipotence imprints his Face.

1765 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto i Manfred..had imprinted her mind with terror.

5. Animal Behaviour. To bring about in (a social animal, usually a young one) a state of habitual recognition of or trust in another animal or an object, which may thus come to be regarded as a parent; const. to or on the object of recognition. Also, of an animal or thing: to become established as an object of recognition or trust in the behaviour pattern of (a young animal) (quot. 1967): see imprinting n. 2. Usually as past participle imprinted adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > psychology > behaviourism > establishment of trust > establish trust [verb]

imprint1951

1951 Ibis 93 259 Young Partridges which had been caught after the fields had been mowed but were still only a few hours old had nevertheless already become definitely imprinted to their normal parents.

1956 W. H. Thorpe Learning & Instinct in Animals vi. 116 The parent Cichlid fish may become imprinted to the young as well as the young to the parent.

1963 W. H. Thorpe Learning & Instinct in Animals (ed. 2) xv. 414 If young birds are kept together in groups they are harder to imprint than if they are kept singly.

1966 R. Morris & D. Morris Men & Apes iii. 57 Monkeys imprinted on human beings as babies will readily accept them as sexual partners on reaching maturity.

1967 J. M. Argyle Psychol. Interpersonal Behaviour i. 23 Dogs raised by humans, may be imprinted by them, and human babies who are reared by wolves may fail to be imprinted by humans.

1972 Nature 2 June 287/2 Many hand-reared birds become imprinted on their human handlers if isolated from their parents at an early age.

1972 Sci. Amer. Aug. 25/3 We also took wild ducklings from their natural mother 16 hours after hatching and tried to imprint them to humans.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	imprint
释义	imprintn. Brit. /ˈɪmprɪnt/, U.S. /ˈɪmˌprɪnt/ Forms: Middle English em-, enpraynt(e, enprinte, enprynte, 1500s imprynte, Scottish imprent, 1600s– imprint. Etymology: Middle English type empreynte , -printe , < French empreinte ‘a stampe, a violent assault’ (Cotgrave), participial noun < empreind-re (past participle empreint ); the prefix subsequently conformed to Latin: see imprint v. Empreinte was a formation of the same class as armée, assise, conduite, etc. I. Something imprinted by pressure, and related uses. 1. a. A figure impressed or imprinted upon something; a mark produced by pressure on a surface; an impression, stamp. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > [noun] > imprint impression1398 imprint1483 signature1582 impress1606 impressurea1616 stampa1652 handstamp1676 imprimature1768 imprimatur1970 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 109 b/2 Thy seal wherein is then~prynte of the crosse. 1526 W. Bonde Rosary sig. Ciii The Vernacle, whiche is the very simylitude and imprinte of thy blessed and glorious visage. 1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Eij As into the wax the seals imprent Is lyke a seale. 1835 J. Batman in K. Cornwallis Panorama New World (1859) I. 411 I requested the chief..to give the imprint of his mark. 1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend v. 231 I showed you..a boulder Marked with the imprint of his shoulder. b. figurative. A character impressed upon something; an attribute communicated by, and constituting evidence of, some agency; ‘stamp’, ‘impression’. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > character or nature > [noun] > imparting character > imparted character printc1350 imprint1609 express1667 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lxxvii. sig. F The vacant leaues thy mindes imprint will beare. View more context for this quotation 1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. xxxii. 490 He has left upon the Continent an imprint of beneficence which time can not efface. 1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. xi. 215 The form-giver has stamped his thought..and fire has made that imprint permanent. c. A representation or type of something. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [noun] > typical or representative case > that which typically exhibits a quality image?1534 abridgement1605 abstracta1616 proverb1659 incarnation1821 imprint1857 embodiment1868 1857–8 E. H. Sears Athanasia xvii. 148 Has God hung down these pictures..as the most perfect imprints of the good and fair? 2. †a. The condition of being printed, printed form, ‘print’ (in in enprinte). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > state of being printed imprint1480 print1932 1480 W. Caxton Descr. Brit. 57 I haue sette them in enprinte according to the translacion of Treuisa. 1485 W. Caxton in tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. aij^v/1 I late had fynysshed in enprynte the book of the noble & vyctoryous kyng Arthur. b. The printing of a book, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > [noun] print1499 impression1509 printing1509 impressing1530 press1579 imprimatur1640 typography1646 imprimery1681 presswork1728 imprimature1813 imprint1899 1899 N.E.D. at Imprint Mod. (Review) In Mr. Martineau's opinion Zurich is the most probable place of imprint. c. Something printed, an ‘impression’ of a writing. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printed matter > [noun] > a print print1507 impression1559 impress1877 imprint1882 1882 Notes & Queries 6th Ser. V. 300/1 An imprint of a part of Roger Dodsworth's Yorkshire collections. 3. a. The name of the publisher, place of publication, and date, printed in a book, usually at the foot of the title page (formerly often at the end of the book); also, the name of printer and place of printing, printed at the end of the book, or on the back of the title page: these are distinguished as the publisher's imprint and printer's imprint. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > colophon or imprint epigraph1633 colophon1774 imprint1790 imprimatur1970 1790 Brit. Crit. Feb. (T.) The imprint, as it is called in technical language, ‘E Typographeo Clarendoniano’, or ‘At the Clarendon Press’. 1860 G. A. Sala Lady Chesterfield's Lett. Pref. 3 Many professional critics confine their labours to reviewing the title and imprint of a book. 1893 E. G. Duff Early Printed Bks. 138 From the time of Caxton's death, in 1491, to the time when his own name first appears in an imprint, Wynkyn de Worde printed five books. b. Extended use: see quots. ΚΠ 1876 C. A. Cutter Rules Dict. Catal. in Public Libraries U.S.A.: Special Rep.: Pt. II (Dept. Interior, Bureau Educ.) §136 The imprint consists of place of publication, publisher's name, date, number of volumes, typographic form, number of pages, and number of maps, engravings, and the like. 1972 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Oct. 1276/5 (advt.) Kahn & Averill (imprint of Stanmore Press Ltd.). 1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 Feb. 121/4 (advt.) Diana Burfield who, before her resignation last summer after seventeen years with the imprint, was editorial director of Tavistock [Publications]. 4. (With capital initial.) An old-style typeface, named after the periodical for which it was designed. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > old style or face old style1868 imprint1913 Plantin1914 old-face1931 1913 Imprint Jan. p. vi The newly designed type in which our pages are presented to the reader was cut by the Lanston Monotype Company at our instance... The type has been christened Imprint Old Face. 1934 A. F. Johnson Type Designs iv. 120 The first acceptable book type to be cut after the Old Style of 1860 was the ‘Monotype’ Imprint of 1913. 1966 P. M. Handover in K. Day Bk. Typogr. 1815–1965 160 Imprint was a reformed Caslon, regularised on the principles that had inspired old style which now resulted in another more distinguished face. †II. An assault or charge. 5. An onset, assault, charge. Cf. impression n. 1b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > charge > [noun] reseOE forec1275 shakec1380 birr1382 frushc1400 impression1402 imprint1490 race1535 charge1569 élan1880 charging1887 1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xx. 62 So moche he made atte the first empraynte, that ar euere his spere was broken, he threwe doune ded syx of his enemyes. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xx. 453 Eche of theim overthrew vii knightes at that enpraynt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). imprintv. /ɪmˈprɪnt/ Forms: α. Middle English–1500s em-, en-, -print, -prynt, -prent, Middle English enpreynt, emprende, enprend. β. Middle English inprent, impraynt, imprend, Middle English (1500s Scottish) imprent, 1500s imprynt, Middle English– imprint. Etymology: Middle English empreynte-n , -prent- , -print- , partly < Old French empreinte-r, -priente-r, a secondary verb (through empreinte noun) < empreind-re (past participle empreint ) ‘to print, also to assaile or set on with violence’ (Cotgrave) < empriembre < late popular Latin impremĕre , for classical Latin imprimĕre to impress, imprint; partly (in form emprende ) immediately < empreind-re ; the eventual form being largely due to the French past participle empreint ‘imprinted’, and the prefix conformed to Latin as in imprint n.: compare print v. 1. a. transitive. To mark by pressure; to impress, stamp (a figure, etc. on something); to delineate by pressure. In first quot., to take an impression of (a solid body). ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > imprint [verb (transitive)] > a mark impressc1374 imprintc1386 enstamp1611 impact1677 α. c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 873 This fresshe May..In warm wex hath emprented [Harl. emprynted] the clyket And Damyan..The cliket countrefeted pryuely. c1420 J. Lydgate Story of Thebes 901 The Carectys of his woundes olde Upon his fete emprented wonder depe. 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) i. iii. sig. b.v ^v Vnto whome we haue enprynted in the forhede the sygne of y^e crosse. β. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 262/1 Inprentyn (MSS. K. & S. imprentyn), inprimo.1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 26 Leaving with them a Seale which did imprint with inke this word REII.1627 M. Drayton Quest of Cynthia in Battaile Agincourt 136 Then looking on the ground, The shape of her most dainty foot, Imprinted there I found.1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 33 The Volto Santo, or print of our Sauiours face, which he imprinted in the handkercher of S. Veronica.1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood iii. 19 Each sometimes stops and slowly imprints a deeper footstep in the fallen leaves. †b. To portray (by some printing process). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > [verb (transitive)] > portray by printing imprint1606 typographize1811 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > print or reproduce [verb (transitive)] stamp1604 imprint1606 reproduce1838 1606 No-body & Some-body sig. D4 Let him be straight imprinted to the life: His picture shall be set on euery stall. †2. To impress (letters or characters) on paper or the like by means of type; to print v. (a book or writing). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > [verb (transitive)] imprint1477 impress1508 print1511 stamp1555 press1579 pull1653 to take off1707 to throw off1720 strike1759 typefy1856 α. 1477 W. Caxton in Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (1877) lf. 73 Here endeth the book named the dictes or sayengis of the philosophhres enprynted, by me William Caxton at Westmestre the yere of our lord . m.cccc.lxxvij. 1483 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (new ed.) sig. aii By cause thys sayd book is ful of holsom wysedom..I have purposed to enprynte it. 1493 Petronylla (Pynson) (ad fin.) Empryntyd by Rychard Pynson. 1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. iiv^v Yf it were enpryntyd allone by itself & put in a lytyll plaunflet. ?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature v. sig. Fvij Enprent their declaracyon. β. c1500 Love & Compl. Mars & Venus (colophon) Thys in pryntide in westmoster in kyng strete. For me Julianus Notarii.1509 in A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) (title page) Inprentyd in the Cyte of London in Fletestre at the signe of Saynt George By Rycharde Pynson.1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxxxvj Willyam Tyndale had newly translated and imprinted the Newe Testament in Englishe.1556 W. Lauder Compend. Tractate Dewtie of Kyngis sig. C4 Imprentit, In the ȝeir of God Ane m.v.c.lvi.1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. 114 (margin) So are the woordes set down in three auncient copies: and not..as in some bookes it is imprinted.1611 Bible (King James) (title page) Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie.1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxx. 176 Clean paper, fit to receive whatsoever..shall be imprinted in them.1709 J. Swift Merlin's Prophecy In an old edition of Merlin's prophecies, imprinted at London..in the year 1530. 3. figurative. a. To impress on or fix in the mind, memory, etc.; formerly often, to impress on one's own mind, consider or remember carefully. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > retention in the mind > retain in the memory [verb (transitive)] > fix in the mind imprintc1374 grave1390 printa1425 minda1500 stamp1662 brand1848 α. c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) v. metr. iv. 129 Ymagynacions of sensible thinges weeren enpreynted [Add. MS. (a1420) inprentid] in to sowles fro bodies with-owte forth. c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 934 Ye been so depe enprented in my thoght. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. v What that she sawe both in minde & thought She all emprynteth. c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine iii. 580 Soo enprended it is On-to hir herte. 1493 Festivall (1515) 125 These vysyons were soo enprynted in this chyldes mynde. 1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados xii. x. 16 Than of ane greter bargane in his entent All suddanly the figure dyd emprent [a1522 imprent]. β. c1374 [see α. ]. a1466 R. Taverham in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 321 Sorowe is inprended in myn hert.1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xiii. 48 Desirynge the presence of Eneas by Imagynacyon impraynted wythin the fauntasme of her entendemente.a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xvi. sig. K.vi Some..haue w^t often thinking theron, imprinted y^t feare so sore in their imaginacion.1576 A. Fleming tr. Sulpicius in Panoplie Epist. 24 Imprint this in thy memorie.1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 42 Not otherwise then to the law of nature and of equity imprinted in us seems correspondent.1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 415. ¶6 Every thing that is Majestick, imprints an Awfullness and Reverence on the Mind of the Beholder.1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 95 It is the business of the women to notice every thing that passes, to imprint it on their memories.1877 E. R. Conder Basis of Faith ii. 75 As we are incorrectly wont to say, imprint themselves on the memory; but to speak more justly, which memory firmly retains. b. To impress (a quality, character, or distinguishing mark) on or in a person or thing; to communicate, impart. In passive of a quality, etc.: To exist strongly marked in or on a person, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > impart lendOE common1340 parta1382 conveyc1386 impart1477 give1481 imprint1526 communicate1534 partake1561 impute1594 participate1598 communea1616 stamp1641 shove?a1650 conne1674 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. biii^v Why than shulde we be about to imprint suche swetenesse in to carnall affections? 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 53 Euen in the vices themselues there remain emprinted some leauinges thereof. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 60 Repugnant to sound reason, and that wisedome which the Divine hand hath imprinted in his workes. 1744 M. Akenside Pleasures Imagination iii. 523 God alone, when first his active hand Imprints the secret byass of the soul. 1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. i. iii. 118 The misery and degradation which are at present imprinted on the very face of the soil. 4. a. transferred. To make an impression or impressed figure upon; to stamp or impress (something) with a figure, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > imprint [verb (transitive)] printa1387 imprintc1400 engrave1542 characterize1581 character1589 impress1598 impression1612 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xxii. 239 Money..Of lether emprented or of papyre. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 1 The way..sa deip imprented with the futstepis of thair foirbears. 1717 M. Prior Henry & Emma 655 She..sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands. 1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein I. 3 A land never before imprinted by the foot of man. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) xiv. 452 The roche..pointed out..as imprinted with the footstep of our Saviour. b. figurative (transferred from 3a and 3b). To impress with some feeling, quality, etc.; also of the quality, To be impressed upon, manifest itself in. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > mark [verb (transitive)] > a person with some condition or quality record1580 write1594 impicture1595 imprint1712 the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > character or nature > impart a character or nature to [verb (transitive)] > stamp a character upon impress1413 printa1450 mint1664 imprint1712 stamp1780 1712 J. Gay Arachne in A. Pope Misc. Poems 87 Dread Omnipotence imprints his Face. 1765 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto i Manfred..had imprinted her mind with terror. 5. Animal Behaviour. To bring about in (a social animal, usually a young one) a state of habitual recognition of or trust in another animal or an object, which may thus come to be regarded as a parent; const. to or on the object of recognition. Also, of an animal or thing: to become established as an object of recognition or trust in the behaviour pattern of (a young animal) (quot. 1967): see imprinting n. 2. Usually as past participle imprinted adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > behaviourism > establishment of trust > establish trust [verb] imprint1951 1951 Ibis 93 259 Young Partridges which had been caught after the fields had been mowed but were still only a few hours old had nevertheless already become definitely imprinted to their normal parents. 1956 W. H. Thorpe Learning & Instinct in Animals vi. 116 The parent Cichlid fish may become imprinted to the young as well as the young to the parent. 1963 W. H. Thorpe Learning & Instinct in Animals (ed. 2) xv. 414 If young birds are kept together in groups they are harder to imprint than if they are kept singly. 1966 R. Morris & D. Morris Men & Apes iii. 57 Monkeys imprinted on human beings as babies will readily accept them as sexual partners on reaching maturity. 1967 J. M. Argyle Psychol. Interpersonal Behaviour i. 23 Dogs raised by humans, may be imprinted by them, and human babies who are reared by wolves may fail to be imprinted by humans. 1972 Nature 2 June 287/2 Many hand-reared birds become imprinted on their human handlers if isolated from their parents at an early age. 1972 Sci. Amer. Aug. 25/3 We also took wild ducklings from their natural mother 16 hours after hatching and tried to imprint them to humans. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1480v.c1374
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