imprintern.
/ɪmˈprɪntə/ One who or that which imprints or impresses; †a printer (obsolete). With quot. 1638 cf. impriment n.
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society > communication > printing > printer > [noun]
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society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > [noun] > one who or that which
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impriment1762
1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16281.5) (facing colophon) This boke is to be sold by the imprinter in queres.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. Pref. Contents I doe pray and request the Readers that if they doe finde any [mistakes], they shall advertise the Imprinter.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Impressore, an inprinter, a stamper.
1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 421 Malacissation is wrought, by Consubstantials; By Imprinters; and by Closers up. [ Bacon Hist. Vitæ & Mortis Canon xxvi. 443 Malacissatio fit, per Consubstantialia, Imprimentia, & Occludentia.]
a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 333 Are forty winters such faint imprinters Of age on a thing of thy mould?
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