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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. abbr. imperative.
  2. abbr. imperfect.
  3. abbr. imperial.
  4. abbr. import.
  5. abbr. imported.
  6. abbr. importer.
  7. abbr. imprimatur.
  8. abbr. imprint.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. abbreviation of imperative.; also term (“en”).
  2. adj. abbreviation of imperfect.Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) uses term as an abbreviation for term in the conjugation sections of its entries.; also term, term, term.
  3. adj. abbreviation of imperial.; compare term (“en”).
  4. adj. abbreviation of impersonal.; also term (“en”).
  5. adj. abbreviation of important.; also term.
  6. adj. abbreviation of imported.; also term.
  7. adj. abbreviation of improved.
  8. adj. abbreviation of imprimé. (“printed”).
  9. n. abbreviation of import.
  10. n. abbreviation of importer.; also term.
  11. n. abbreviation of impression.
  12. n. abbreviation of imprimatur.
  13. n. abbreviation of imprint.
  14. n. abbreviation of improvement.
  15. n. abbreviation of imprimeur. (“printer”).
  16. v. abbreviation of implement.

Etymologies

  1. Middle English impe, scion, sprig, offspring, from Old English impa, young shoot, from impian, to graft, ultimately from Medieval Latin impotus, graft, from Greek emphutos, grafted, from emphuein, to implant : en-, in; see en-2 + phuein, to make grow; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots.

Examples

  • “XVII C (History of the Russian schools of iconography to the end of the seventeenth century) (St. Petersburg, 1856); PETROFF, Sbornik materialov dija istorii imp. akademii khudozhestv (Collection of materials for the history of the Imperial Academy of Arts) (St. Petersburg, 1864-66); VIOLLET LE DUC, L'art russe, ses origines, ses éléments constitutifs, son apogée, son avenir (Paris, 1877);”

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock

  • “Province State, to David Thompson, jun. the sum of five Pounds, in new i44? c'imp. '33i. money, in addition to his pension for the year 1779, ending the”

    Internet Archive: Acts and resolves passed by the General Court

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