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Impress   /ɪmprˈɛs/  /ˈɪmprˌɛs/   Listen
verb
Impress  v. t.  (past & past part. impressed; pres. part. impressing)  
1.
To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression). "His heart, like an agate, with your print impressed."
2.
To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
3.
Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate. "Impress the motives of persuasion upon our own hearts till we feel the force of them."
4.
To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money. "The second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners."


Impress  v. i.  To be impressed; to rest. (Obs.) "Such fiendly thoughts in his heart impress."


noun
Impress  n.  (pl. impresses)  
1.
The act of impressing or making.
2.
A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence. "The impresses of the insides of these shells." "This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice."
3.
Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
4.
A device. See Impresa. "To describe... emblazoned shields, Impresses quaint."
5.
The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed. "Why such impress of shipwrights?"
Impress gang, a party of men, with an officer, employed to impress seamen for ships of war; a press gang.
Impress money, a sum of money paid, immediately upon their entering service, to men who have been impressed.





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"Impress" Quotes from Famous Books



... the society of Derwent, her meditations in which she sometimes detected herself drawing a picture of what Denbigh might have been, if early care had been taken to impress him with his situation in this world, and from which she generally retired to her closet and her knees, were the remains of feelings too strong and too pure to be torn from ...
— Precaution • James Fenimore Cooper
... responsibilities. Each man was living for himself. He intended to get his own and to protect his own, and he cared very little for the difficulties of his neighbors. In other words, the discovery of gold offered California as the blank of a mint to receive the impress of a brand new civilization. And furthermore it gave to these men and, through them, to the world an impressive lesson that social responsibility can be evaded for a time, to be sure, but only for a time; and that at the last it must be taken up and ...
— The Forty-Niners - A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado • Stewart Edward White
... too refined for utterance, Ethereal as the air, Crowd through the brain's dim labyrinths, And leave their impress there; {12} ...
— Hesperus - and Other Poems and Lyrics • Charles Sangster
... is the stamp, impress'd by heav'n To mark the noblest minds; with active heat Inform'd, they mount the precipice of pow'r, Grasp at command, and tow'r in quest of empire; While vulgar souls compassionate their cares, Gaze at their height, and tremble at ...
— Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 - The Works Of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., In Nine Volumes • Samuel Johnson
... "the real yogin are no doubt sincere; but a real yogi wouldn't waste his time on a soft-brained old man, and fire sky-rockets off at midnight to impress him. My own opinion is that this fellow is a fakir—a juggler, a sleight-of-hand ...
— The Gloved Hand • Burton E. Stevenson


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