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Definitions for: Impress
[n] the act of coercing someone into government service
[v] dye (fabric) before it is spun
[v] make a deep and indelible impression on someone
[v] take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, esp. on board a ship; "The men were shanghaied after being drugged"
[v] mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax"
[v] reproduce by printing
[v] have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
[v] impress positively; "The young chess player impressed her audience"
Webster (1913) Definition: Im*press", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impressed; p. pr. &
vb. n. Impressing.] [L. impressus, p. p. of imprimere to
impress; pref. im- in, on + premere to press. See Press to
squeeze, and cf. Imprint.]
1. To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by
pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears
the impression).
His heart, like an agate, with your print impressed.
--Shak.
2. To produce by pressure, as a mark, stamp, image, etc.; to
imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
3. Fig.: To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to
the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
Impress the motives of persuasion upon our own
hearts till we feel the force of them. --I. Watts.
4. [See Imprest, Impress, n., 5.] To take by force for
public service; as, to impress sailors or money.
The second five thousand pounds impressed for the
service of the sick and wounded prisoners. --Evelyn.
Im*press", v. i.
To be impressed; to rest. [Obs.]
Such fiendly thoughts in his heart impress. --Chaucer.
Im"press, n.; pl. Impresses.
1. The act of impressing or making.
2. A mark made by pressure; an indentation; imprint; the
image or figure of anything, formed by pressure or as if
by pressure; result produced by pressure or influence.
The impresses of the insides of these shells.
--Woodward.
This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in
ice. --Shak.
3. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp. --South.
4. A device. See Impresa. --Cussans.
To describe . . . emblazoned shields, Impresses
quaint. --Milton.
5. [See Imprest, Press to force into service.] The act of
impressing, or taking by force for the public service;
compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.
Why such impress of shipwrights? --Shak.
Impress gang, a party of men, with an officer, employed to
impress seamen for ships of war; a press gang.
Impress money, a sum of money paid, immediately upon their
entering service, to men who have been impressed.
Synonyms: affect, impressment, imprint, ingrain, instill, move, print, shanghai, strike, yarn-dye
See Also: abduct, affect, boldface, boss, change surface, cloud, cyclostyle, disturb, dye, emboss, experience, feel, hit home, impress, impress, infect, ingrain, instill, italicise, italicize, jar, kidnap, letter, move, multigraph, nobble, overprint, pierce, prepossess, press, print over, prove, sadden, seizure, smite, snatch, stamp, stir, strike, strike a chord, strike a note, strike dumb, strike home, sweep away, sweep off, touch, trouble, typeset, upset, wow, write, zap
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