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imprimatur|ɪmprɪˈmeɪtə(r)|
[Lat. imprimātur, 3rd sing. pres. subj. pass. of imprimĕre to impress, imprint, in mod.L., to print.]
1. The formula (= ‘let it be printed’), signed by an official licenser of the press, authorizing the printing of a book; hence as n. an official license to print.
Now (in Great Britain and U.S.) only in works officially sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church.
1640Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. 23 Nov. iii. (1642) 7 To this I parallell our late Imprimatur's, Licences for the Presse. 1641Milton Animadv. i, Your proud Imprimaturs not to be obtain'd without the shallow surview, but not shallow hand of some mercenary, narrow Soul'd, and illitterate Chaplain. 1660Trial Regic. [on p. facing title p.], Imprimatur; J. Berkenhead. 1712Addison Spect. No. 445 ⁋1 A Sheet of blank Paper that must have this new Imprimatur clapt upon it. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Young Wks. IV. 229 The vice-chancellor's imprimatur, for it was first printed at Oxford, is dated May the 19th, 1713. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxi. IV. 607 But Etherege's She Would if She Could..obtained the Imprimatur without difficulty. 1870Baldw. Brown Eccl. Truth 242 These tales..were circulated..with the imprimatur of the church. 1883Catholic Dict. p. iv, Imprimatur. Henricus Eduardus Card. Archiep. Westmonast. Die 18 Dec. 1883. 1884Ibid. (ed. 2), It has not been thought necessary to secure a fresh ‘Imprimatur’ for the additional matter in this edition; but it is submitted to the authority of the Church.
2. fig. Commendatory license, sanction.
1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 46 As things of Buffoonery do commonly, they carry with them their own Imprimatur. 1742Young Nt. Th. vii. 1404 Thus shall my title pass a sacred seal, Receive an imprimatur from Above. 1893Patmore Relig. Poetæ 121 Lord Rosebery affirmed that the test of true literature and its only justifiable Imprimatur is ‘the thumb-mark of the artisan’. 1955Bull. Atomic Sci. June 209/2 His calculations and conclusions bear no imprimatur of the Atomic Energy Commission. 1973N.Y. Law Jrnl. 31 Aug. 3/1 It is well-settled contract law that courts do not give their imprimatur to such arrangements.
¶ Used confusedly = imprint n. 3. (Quot. 1971 is fig.)
1970Daily Tel. 7 May 13/2 The agent, not the candidate, is the one liable to fines..if he..issues one word of election literature without his own and the printer's imprimatur on it. 1971Nature 7 May 40/2 The site near Kültepe has been identified as the Assyrian karum Kanis and most of the tablets can thus be considered to bear the implicit imprimatur ‘found at Kanis’. |