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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Imprint \Im*print"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Imptrinted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Imprinting}.] [OE. emprenten, F. empreint, p. p. of empreindre to imprint, fr. L. imprimere to impres, imprint. See 1st {In-}, {Print}, and cf. {Impress}.]
1. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.
And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands. --Prior.
2. To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates, stamps, or the like; to print the mark (figures, letters, etc., upon something).
Nature imprints upon whate'er we see, That has a heart and life in it, ''Be free.'' --Cowper.
3. To fix indelibly or permanently, as in the mind or memory; to impress.
Ideas of those two different things distinctly imprinted on his mind. --Locke.
4. (Ethology) To create or acquire (a behavioral pattern) by the process of {imprinting}. [PJC]
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