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Grammar : Noun |
Spell : im-pri-mah-ter, -mey-, -prahy- |
Phonetic Transcription : ˌɪm prɪˈmɑ tər, -ˈmeɪ-, -praɪ- |
Definition of imprimatur
Origin :- 1640, Modern Latin, literally "let it be printed," the formula of a book licenser, third person singular present subjunctive passive of Latin imprimere "to print" (see impress). Originally of state license to print books, later only of Roman Catholic Church.
- noun approval
- I mean it depends on his permission; his imprimatur; his nihil obstat.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- Work of men's hands they may be, but they bear the imprimatur of nature.
- Extract from : « Greener Than You Think » by Ward Moore
- In the new creation of the human mind it was Imprimatur—let it be printed.
- Extract from : « Printing and the Renaissance » by John Rothwell Slater
- The Vice-Chancellor's imprimatur (for it was printed at Oxford) is dated the 19th, 1713.
- Extract from : « Lives of the Poets: Gay, Thomson, Young, and Others » by Samuel Johnson
- This imprimatur is stamped upon the first page of the text in every book.
- Extract from : « Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh » by Augustus F. Lindley
- He passed this section of work or that, and gave the other his imprimatur.
- Extract from : « Mushroom Town » by Oliver Onions
- On the verso of the half-title is the Imprimatur, dated February 6, 1722.
- Extract from : « A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) » by Various
- So this book sees the light with their imprimatur, and we therefore publish it with the greatest confidence.
- Extract from : « The Peace Negotiations » by J. D. Kestell
- This collection also contains a number of trial and "imprimatur" sheets of British stamps.
- Extract from : « Peeps at Postage Stamps » by Stanley Currie Johnson
- Imprimatur nevertheless was the concluding word,—with these grave abatements, and rhadamanthine admonitions.
- Extract from : « The Life of John Sterling » by Thomas Carlyle
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