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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of emprint.

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Examples

  • Sir Thomas Malory, knight, as afore is said, and by me divided into twenty-one books, chaptered and emprinted, and finished in the abbey, Westminster, the last day of July the year of our Lord

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

  • This holy man S. Francis saw in a vision above him, Seraphin crucified, the which emprinted in him the signs of his crucifying, that him seemed that he was crucified, and that in his hands, his feet, and in his side, him seemed were the sign of the wounds of the crucifying, but he did hide these tokens as much as he might, that no man should see them.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900

  • He was wise and discreet, and so emprinted in his heart that all his words were firm and stable.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 3 1230-1298 1900

  • And when our Lord saw this thing he took from the painter a linen cloth and set it upon his visage, and emprinted the very phisiognomy of his visage therein, and sent it unto the king Abgarus which so much desired it.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900

  • And thus as I bare a linen kerchief in my bosom, our Lord met me, and demanded whither I went, and when I told him whither I went and the cause, he demanded my kerchief, and anon he emprinted his face and figured it therein.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900

  • Which book was reduced into English by Sir Thomas Malory, knight, as afore is said, and by me divided into twenty-one books, chaptered and emprinted, and finished in the abbey, Westminster, the last day of July the year of our Lord MCCCCLXXX {?}.

    Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 2 1470

  • But when the finner feking to efcneuc the iudgement emprinted in him, is now and then drawene backe vnto it, and not fuffcred fo to winke, but that he be compelled whether he will or no, fome time to open his eyes: it is '

    The institution of christian religion 1578

  • Jane thought little of seeing the envelope with her daughter’s college emprinted as the return address.

    The midpoint « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts 2007

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