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单词 imprime
释义

imprimen.

Etymology: < imprime v.
Hunting. Obsolete.
The act of ‘impriming’ a deer.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [noun] > deer > actions in deer-hunting
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assayc1400
lodging1525
mort1555
imprime1590
say?1611
essay1694
mort note1830
tufting1862
1590 T. Cokayne Treat. Hunting C iv b And being sure it his owne Deere, he may giue one gibbet, at euery imprime, and no more.
1678 tr. A. de Courtin Rules Civility (rev. ed.) xvi. 166 If you be a Hunting the Buck [with a noble person],..suffer him to come in first to the death or imprime.
1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 214 If he be sunk, and the Hounds thrust him up, 'tis call'd an Imprime, and the Company all sound a Racheat.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

imprimev.

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s em-.
Etymology: < im- prefix1 + prime n.1 or prime adj., or Latin prīmus first. The history of the hunting sense is obscure, and it may be a word of different origin.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. Hunting. To separate a deer from the rest of the herd.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [verb (transitive)] > hunt deer > single out
imprime1575
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxix. 242 When he is hunted and doth first leaue the herde, we say that he is syngled or emprymed.
1590 T. Cokayne Treat. Hunting C iv b Put your hounds softly vpon, for he wil fall oft at the beginning; which although the Huntsman see, yet must he giue libertie to the yoong houndes to imprime him themselues.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Emprimed, a term used by Hunters when a Hart first forsakes the Herd.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To imprime (in Hunting), to unharbour, rouze, or dislodge a Wild Beast; A Deer is also said to be imprimed when she is forc'd to forsake the Herd.
1775 in J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang.
1845 J. Mills Old Hall I. i. 13 Occasionally an old, impoverished buck was taken, and a lean, weak hind, lame or injured in some way or other; but as for a three, four, or six-year old stag, he was never viewed again after being once emprimed.
1885 Red Dragon 7 530 The first night the party slept at Llwyn Diarwyd; next day they passed on to Cuuh Valley, and uncoupling the great hounds soon emprimed a stag from his harbour.
2. To begin, commence, initiate, enter upon.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > begin or enter upon (an action) [verb (transitive)]
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take?a1160
comsea1225
gina1325
commencec1330
tamec1386
to take upa1400
enterc1510
to stand to1567
incept1569
start1570
to set into ——1591
initiate1604
imprime1637
to get to ——1655
flesh1695
to start on ——1885
1637 H. Wotton Let. 30 July in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 441 To trouble you..about the yet imperfected, though wel imprimed, Business of New-Windsor.

Derivatives

imˈpriming n. beginning, commencement; entering upon action.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > beginning action or activity > [noun] > entering upon a course of action
intrado1609
impriminga1639
launching1725
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > [noun]
ordeOE
thresholdeOE
frumthc950
anginOE
frumeOE
worthOE
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inition1463
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starting off1616
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outset1664
outsettinga1698
going off1714
offsetting1782
offset1791
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aurora1806
incipiency1817
set-out1821
set-in1826
throw-off1828
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kick-off1875
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off1896
get-go1960
lift-off1967
a1639 H. Wotton Let. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 455 After their impriming in France I could wish them to mount the Pirenies into Spaine.
a1639 H. Wotton Earle of Essex & Duke of Buckingham: Parallel in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 6 These were both their springings and Imprimings, as I may call them.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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