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impressare

impressare [LL, cf. OF empresser] 1 to mark by the application of pressure, to stamp, imprint (with). 1454 tumba ‥ de petra marmorea cum ymagine mea et ymagine Margarete nuper uxoris mee desuper impressat’ de auricalco Test. Ebor. II 200; 1464 duo corporalia, unum de rubio et nigro serico et aliud de nigro in toto cum rubiis arboribus ~atis Fabr. York 281. 2 to make impression (of seal) (in). b (transf., w. ref. to seal matrix). 1508 qui non introduxerunt ‥ signa possessorum ‥ dicti stanni in dictum Scaccarium apud Lostwithiel ad ~andum, imponendum, sive scribendum in quodam libro signaturarum ‥ antequam ‥ signarent ‥ aliquod stannum cum dicto signo Pat 605 m. 29.  b 1502 cum sigillo ‥ de imagine Assumpcionis beate Marie ~ato bagam illam ‥ sigillavit Cl 362 m. 25d..

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