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Meaning of "imprimatur" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD IMPRIMATUR

New Latin, literally: let it be printed.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF IMPRIMATUR

imprimatur  [ˌɪmprɪˈmeɪtə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IMPRIMATUR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Imprimatur is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES IMPRIMATUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

imprimatur

Imprimatur

An imprimatur is, in the proper sense, a declaration authorizing publication of a book. The term is also applied loosely to any mark of approval or endorsement.

Definition of imprimatur in the English dictionary

The definition of imprimatur in the dictionary is a licence granted by a bishop certifying the Church's approval of a book to be published. Other definition of imprimatur is sanction, authority, or approval, esp for something to be printed.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IMPRIMATUR


administrator
ədˈmɪnɪˌstreɪtə
amalgamator
əˈmælɡəˌmeɪtə
animater
ˈænɪˌmeɪtə
animator
ˈænɪˌmeɪtə
calculator
ˈkælkjʊˌleɪtə
collimator
ˈkɒlɪˌmeɪtə
confirmator
ˈkɒnfəˌmeɪtə
cremator
krɪˈmeɪtə
decimator
ˈdesɪˌmeɪtə
dephlegmator
ˌdiːfleɡˈmeɪtə
estimator
ˈɛstɪˌmeɪtə
lachrymator
ˈlækrɪˌmeɪtə
lacrimator
ˈlækrɪˌmeɪtə
lacrymator
ˈlækrɪˌmeɪtə
legitimator
lɪˈdʒɪtɪˌmeɪtə
mater
ˈmeɪtə
Mehta
ˈmeɪtə
Meta
ˈmeɪtə
monochromator
ˌmɒnəʊˈkrəʊmeɪtə
ultimata
ˌʌltɪˈmeɪtə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IMPRIMATUR

impressionally
impressionism
impressionist
impressionistic
impressive
impressively
impressiveness
impressment
impressure
imprest
imprimis
imprint
imprinted
imprinter
imprinting
imprison
imprisonable
imprisoner
imprisonment
improbability

WORDS THAT END LIKE IMPRIMATUR

cratur
Decatur
exequatur
Fraktur
gaudeamus igitur
Guntur
Kultur
loquitur
non prosequitur
non sequitur
quaeritur
res ipsa loquitur
santur
sequitur
subintelligitur
te igitur
the cratur
vacatur

Synonyms and antonyms of imprimatur in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «imprimatur» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IMPRIMATUR

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The translations of imprimatur from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «imprimatur» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

出版许可
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

imprimatur
570 millions of speakers

English

imprimatur
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

इजाज़त
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سمتها
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

санкция
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

imprimatur
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অগ্রদত্ত টাকা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

imprimatur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Imprimatur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Imprimatur
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

出版許可
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

발행 허가
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Imprimatur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cho phép in sách tôn giáo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அங்கீகாரத்துடனும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Imprimatur
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ruhsat
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

imprimatur
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

imprimatur
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

санкція
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bun de tipar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

imprimatur
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bijval
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

imprimatur
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

imprimatur
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of imprimatur

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IMPRIMATUR»

The term «imprimatur» is regularly used and occupies the 100.884 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IMPRIMATUR» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «imprimatur» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «imprimatur» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about imprimatur

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IMPRIMATUR»

Discover the use of imprimatur in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to imprimatur and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Imprimatur
A thriller in the vein of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, this novel sheds new light on the power struggles of 17th-century Europe, the repercussions of which are still felt today.
Rita Monaldi, Francesco Sorti, 2009
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Dark Imprimatur
DARK. IMPRIMATUR. The subway train was rank with the odour of urine and vomit, but James Donovan barely noticed the assault on his nostrils. Even the violent judder of the carriage as it sped beneath the sleeping city failed to make any ...
Ivan Latham
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Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science: Volume 11 - ...
Imprimatur (Latin meaning let it be printed) is the formula used by the authorities of the Roman Catholic Church whereby a member of that church is granted permission to publish a book, contribute an article to a periodical or newspaper, and ...
Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E. Daily, 1974
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The Publisher in Changing Markets
The IMPRIMATUR Business Model Chris BARLAS IMPRIMATUR Project Manager, UK Need for a Business Model During the early stages of the IMPRIMAUTR project, it was quite clear that we were dealing with something quite new — the ...
Seiji Sato, 1998
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Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity
7 By the word "imprimatur," I mean the sense Jameson's statement invokes, one familiar from countless accounts of modernism, that the modernist literary object bears the stylistic stamp of its producer prominently. At once as a distinctive mark  ...
Aaron Jaffe, 2005
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Some Materials for a Bibliography of the Official ...
[November 13-29, 1746.] [Imprimatur] James Parker, printer, pp. 31-38. F°. P. R. O., P. H. S., N. Y.'S. L. Signature I, K in twos. December 6. [718] [Running Title] Anno vicessimo Georgii secundi Regis. | Chap. IX. | An Act to let to Farm the Excise ...
Adelaide Rosalia Hasse, 1903
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Bulletin of the New York Public Library
bly | of | His Majesty's Colony of New-York, which | began the Fifth of April, 1737. | [April 5-7. 1737 ] [Imprimatur] William Bradford, printer, pp. I, 3, 4, 4. F°. N. Y. H. S. April 16. [523] [Half Title] Journal of the Votes | [April 13 to 16, 1737.1 pp. 5-8.
‎1903
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The Qur??n in Context: Historical and Literary ...
Nachrichten und kritische Meinungen aus der katholischen Kirche 37, no 2 (2004 ) (http://wwwphiluni-sbde/projekte/Imprimatur/2004/imp040203html; January 7, 2005) Popp, Volker “Bildliche Darstellungen aus der Frühzeit des Islam (II) eine ...
Angelika Neuwirth, Nicolai Sinai, Michael Marx, 2010
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Advances in Information Technologies: The Business Challenge
2-4 D-l0587 Berlin Germany It is one of the main goals of the IMPRIMATUR Demonstrator to illustrate how IPR management can be facilitated through the use of open computer networks such as the Intemet. The IMPRIMATUR Demonstrator is ...
J.-Y. Roger, B. Stanford-Smith, Paul T. Kidd, 1998
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The Papacy: Gaius-Proxies
Pius X was the first to use the terms imprimatur and nihil obstat (i.e., "it may be printed" and "no opposition to publication," respectively) in a legal text; this was in the ENCYCLICAL Pascendi (8 September 1907), and later in the motu propio ...
Philippe Levillain, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IMPRIMATUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term imprimatur is used in the context of the following news items.
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Why privatizing marriage would be a disaster - The Week
The government shouldn't "confer a special imprimatur upon a new definition of marriage," he said. It should leave marriage to churches and ... «The Week Magazine, Jul 15»
2
UVM president: Affirmative action still needed - Burlington Free Press
It gave the constitutional imprimatur for schools to have the discretion to be able to use race among many factors in the recruitment of students. «BurlingtonFreePress.com, Jul 15»
3
Rumble at the Super PAC: How Clinton Infighting Migrated to an …
By bringing him aboard, Cecil says, it signaled to donors "they would know the [Clinton] imprimatur had been received." Cecil, who gave ... «National Journal, Jul 15»
4
Mike Huckabee makes his pitch to black voters
... look at the candidates individually,” he said of black voters heading into 2016, “because the eventual nominee will get to put their imprimatur ... «MSNBC, Jul 15»
5
Laura Ingraham explains it all
She was very successful in laying out her own cultural imprimatur and we're going to do that in our own way. We want to be that place where ... «WND.com, Jul 15»
6
China's Economic Data and Moral Hazard - Uncommon Wisdom Daily
It encourages banks and individual savers alike to lend to wasteful projects, as long as an official imprimatur is looped in somewhere. «Uncommon Wisdom Daily, Jul 15»
7
World View: India, and the Taliban's changing dynamics - The Hindu
... talks, the Qatar office made a convoluted pronouncement indicating that future negotiations needed its imprimatur for any chance of success. «The Hindu, Jul 15»
8
The Dangerous Precedent of the Smithsonian's Support for Bill Cosby
Today: Kurin and Johnnetta Cole, director of the National Museum of African Art, continue to lend the Smithsonian's imprimatur to the Cosbys, ... «Washington City Paper, Jul 15»
9
2 explosions in Nigerian market, at least 25 feared dead - The …
Neither the country's relief agency nor the army have reacted to the latest explosions but locals say it bore the imprimatur of the Boko Haram ... «Journal of Turkish Weekly, Jul 15»
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New Mesophere SDK Gives Data Center Developers a Shiny New …
The certification process provides a trusted imprimatur to partner services, making it easier for buyers to purchase and implement in production. «App Developer Magazine, Jul 15»

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