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One who, or that which, impresses. Boyle.

Dent; impression. [Obs.] Shak.

y, money advanced for some public service, as in enlistment. Burke. The clearing of their imprests for what little of their debts they have received. Pepys.

Want of prevalence. [Obs.]

The state or quality of being impreventable. [R.]

Not preventable; invitable.

A license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; also, in countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval of that which is published.

A print; impression.

A begining. [Obs.] "Their springings and imprimings." Sir H. Wotton.

In the first place; first in order.

To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp. And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands. Prior.

To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine. He imprisoned was in chains remediles. Spenser.

One who imprisons.

The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint. His sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by foreibly detaining one in the pu…

The quality or state of being improbable; unlikelihood; also, that which is improbable; an improbable event or result.

true; not to be expected under the circumstances or in the usual course of events; as, an improbable story or event. He . . . sent to Elutherius, then bishop of Rome, an improbable letter, as some of the contents discover. Milton. -- Im*prob"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*prob"a*bly, adv.

To disapprove of; to disallow. [Obs.]

The act of disapproving; disapprobation.

Implying, or tending to, improbation.

probity; want of integrity or rectitude; dishonesty. Persons . . . cast out for notorious improbity. Hooker.