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▪ I. imprinted, ppl. a.1|ɪmˈprɪntɪd|
[f. prec. vb. + -ed1.]
Impressed, stamped, printed: see the verb.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 3 b, This imprinted persuasion of God is of most greate force. 1746–7Hervey Medit. (1818) 140 As the wax is turned to the imprinted seal. 1836J. H. Newman in Lyra Apost., Shame iii, Saviour! wash out the imprinted shame. 1888Century Mag. XXXVI. 763/1 The bearer of the imprinted piece of paper.
▸ Genetics. Associated with or exhibiting imprinting (imprinting n. Additions).
1975H. S. Chandra & S. W. Brown in Nature 17 Jan. 166 (table) Parental origin of imprinted chromosomes. 1987Cell 50 719/1 This pattern of expression correlates precisely with a parentally imprinted methylation state evident in all tissues. 2003J. Alcock Triumph of Sociobiol. 121 Selection has evidently acted on females favoring those..that happened to have a physiological mechanism for counteracting the deleterious effects of the imprinted gene they receive from their copulatory companions.
▪ II. ˈimprinted, ppl. a.2
[f. imprint n. + -ed2.]
Bearing a bookseller's own imprint (imprint n. 3).
1926Publishers' Weekly 17 July 181/2 A month before publication 300,000 imprinted postcards had been asked for. 1927Ibid. 25 June 2371 Imprinted brochures are now ready for distribution. |