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Azzarello eventually wrote a four-issue "Jonny Double" miniseries for the imprint, which is where he first met "100 Bullets" artist Eduardo Risso.

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  1. transitive verb To produce (a mark or pattern) on a surface by pressure.
  2. transitive verb To produce a mark on (a surface) by pressure.
  3. transitive verb To impart a strong or vivid impression of: "We imprint our own ideas onto acts” (Ellen Goodman).
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  • Azzarello eventually wrote a four-issue "Jonny Double" miniseries for the imprint, which is where he first met "100 Bullets" artist Eduardo Risso. —  Comic Book Resources
  • MySpace post over at Shotgun Jimmie's page says that the new record label imprint is called "You've Changed". —  For the 'records'
  • Reign in Blood and twenty years after South of Heaven his imprint is evident as Metallica releases their ninth studio album; the band's first under Warner's imprint (though Warner now owns Elektra, Metallica's prior label) and its first in seventeen years without producer and fill-in bassist Bob Rock. —  Culture Bully
  • It has been made explicitally clear that not all wolves imprint, and that what has happened to the pack is something of a fluke. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • Team Jacob fans need to remember the most important aspect of a werewolve's love life - they will eventually imprint, and we already know that Jacob will NOT imprint on Bella. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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  1. Middle English emprenten, from Old French empreinter, from empreinte, impression, from feminine past participle of empreindre, to print, from Latin imprimere, to impress; see impress1.

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  1. Formerly emprint, from Old French empreinte (French empreinte = Provencal emprenta = Spanish Italian imprenta), impression, stamp, mark, from empreint, past participle of empreindre, French empreindre = Provencal enpremar = Spanish Portuguese imprimir = Italian imprimere, impress, imprint, from Latin imprimere, inprimere, press upon, impress, New Latin print: see impress, and cf. print.
  2. Formerly also emprint, enprint; from late Middle English emprinten, enprinten; from Old French empreinter, emprainter, stamp, engrave; from the noun: see imprint, n. In English the noun is rather from the verb. Cf. impress and print, v.
 

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