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Impress
IMPRESS', v.t. [L. impressum, from imprimo; in and premo, to press.]
1. To imprint; to stamp; to make a mark or figure on any thing by pressure; as, to impress coin with the figure of a man's head, or with that of any ox or sheep; to impress a figure on wax or clay.
2. To print, as books.
3. To mark; to indent.
4. To fix deep; as, to impress truth on the mind, or facts on the memory. Hence, to convict of sin.
5. To compel to enter into public service, as seamen; to seize and take into service by compulsion, as nurses in sickness. In this sense, we use press or impress indifferently.
6. To seize; to take for public service; as, to impress provisions.
IM'PRESS, n. A mark or indentation, made by pressure.
1. The figure or image of any thing made by pressure; stamp; likeness.
2. Mark of distinction; stamp; character.
God leaves us this general impress or character on the works of creation, that they were very good.
3. Device; motto.
To describe emblazoned shields,
Impresses quaint--
4. The act of compelling to enter public service. [See Press.]
impress appears in definitions for these words:
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Active Acute Acuteness Affected Affecting Affectively Affright Affrighting Afraid Alive Amazement Angel Anticipate Anticipation Appall August Awe-inspiring Awestruck Belief Bole Brand Branding Brief Brush Bull Calking Carry Casting Charact Charactery Coin Conchylaceous Copper-plate Couch Cross Cut Deaf Deafness Deceptive Delicacy Delicate Dented Dint Dinting Discourager Dishearten Dismay Distinguish Diversion Doleful Dolorous Dreadful Dream Edition Editor Efface Effaced Effacing Effigy Emission Emotion Emphasis Emphasize Emphatic End Enforce Engrave Engraven Enseal Ensealed Ensign Enstamp Enstamped Enstamping Epizootic Etching Expressure Exquisite Fasten Fastened Fearful Fearfully Flinty Fluidity Footstep Forcible Forcibly Foreshortening Form Formidable Formidably Frightful Frightfully Frightfulness Frisket Graduate Graving Grim Guard-room Habitual Harden Hardness Hear Ichthyolite Idea Imagery Immovable Impact Impenetrability Impenetrable Impenetrably Impictured Imposing Impregnable Impress Impressibility Impressible Impression Impressive Impressiveness Impressment Impressure Imprimery Imprint Impulse Inculcate Inculcated Inculcating Inculcation Indelible Inert Inseam Insignia Inspiration Instincted Insusceptible Inure Letter Letter-press Lettering Lightly Lithography Loud M Mark Marked Matter Natural Notice Object Obliterate Once Opium Our Passibility Passible Passion Passive Passiveness Patient Peck Penetrable Penetrative Perceive Perceptible Perception Percussion Perigraph Peroration Pick Pile Piston Platen Porcellanite Potential Pound Power Predisposition Prepossession Press Press-gang Pressman Pressure Prest-money Principle Print Printed Printer Printing Printless Proof Puncheon Purveyance React Realize Realized Realizing Reasonableness Rebound Reimpress Reimpressed Reimpressing Reimpression Repel Repetition Reprint Reprinted Reprinting Resistance Respectively Reverent Rocky Rolling-press Root Rote Run Satisfactorily Seal Sealing-wax Sense Sensibility Sensible Sensibleness Sensitive Shale Shock Siderographch Siderographocal Siderography Signature Signaturist Significancy Simile Sink Sleep Slight Slightness Smitten Soft Softness Solemn Solemnity Solid Solidity Sound Stain Stamp Stamped Stamping Startle Startled Startling Step Stereotyping Stiffen Stigmatical Strength Strike Striking Strikingly Strong Superscription Supervene Susceptibiility Susceptible Sympathy Take Teach Tender Tender-hearted Terrible Terror Thankful Touch Trace Track Tracking Tympan Type Typography Typolite Unappalled Undecorated Undinted Unimpressive Unmoved Unstruck Unsusceptible Vibrant Vibration Visionary Vortex Weak Weight Weightily Weightiness Write Zone
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