impriming

English

Etymology

From im- +‎ prime +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɹaɪmɪŋ/

Noun

impriming (plural imprimings)

1. (obsolete) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A beginning.
   • c. 1635 (date written), Henry Wotton, “Of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham: Some Observations by Way of Parallel in the Time of Their Estates of Favour”, in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ. Or, A Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems; […], London: […] Thomas Maxey, for R[ichard] Marriot, G[abriel] Bedel, and T[imothy] Garthwait, published 1651, →OCLC, page 6:

     And theſe vvere both their ſpringings and Imprimings, as I may call them.

Verb

impriming

1. present participle and gerund of imprime

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “impriming”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)