Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which impresses.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, impresses.

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  • noun One who, or that which, impresses.

Etymologies

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Latin, a printer.

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Examples

  • There was the impressor to find recruits for the circuses.

    In Hoc Anno Domini 2011

  • There was the impressor to find recruits for the circuses.

    In Hoc Anno Domini 2010

  • There was the impressor to find recruits for the circuses.

    In Hoc Anno Domini 2008

  • Num aparte, não cesso de me maravilhar com as nossas modernas impressoras, que fazem e segundos aquilo que um impressor experiente demoraria semanas a fazer nos velhos tempos de Gutenberg.

    Next Big Thing Artur 2007

  • There was the impressor to find recruits for the circuses.

    In Hoc Anno Domini 2007

  • To have a printing press abroad in the hands of a competent English printer was a great gain to the Catholic cause, and Fowler devoted the rest of his life to this work, winning from Cardinal Allen the praise of being catholicissimus et doctissimus librorum impressor.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • [Illustration] ¶ Empremiose em a muy nobre & sempre leal cidade de Lixboa em casa de Ioam Aluarez impressor del Rey nosso senhor

    Four Plays of Gil Vicente Gil Vicente 1501

  • Empremiose em a muy nobre & sempre leal cidade de Lixboa em casa de Ioam Aluarez impressor del Rey nosso senhor.

    Four Plays of Gil Vicente Gil Vicente 1501

  • Bailie Cockburn had advised the inhabitants of that burgh to "oppose any impressor," and seizing the occasion of the "Impressure of an

    The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

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