imprest
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In order to foresee disasters it is necessary that the perception—visual or auditory—of said disasters should already have imprest us.
From Common Sense, How to Exercise It by Yoritomo-Tashi, Mme. Blanchard
He whose thoughts are imprest vividly on the surface is always placed at a glaring disadvantage.
From Common Sense, How to Exercise It by Yoritomo-Tashi, Mme. Blanchard
Allowing for the changes produced by time, I think sufficient analogy may be found between the ancient and modern uses of the words "imprest" and "debenture."
From Notes and Queries, Number 37, July 13, 1850 by Various
While pity prompts the rising sigh, With awful power imprest; May this dread truth, "I too must die," Sink deep in every breast.
From Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason together with the Ceremony of Installation, Laying Corner Stones, Dedications, Masonic Burial, Etc. by Thornburgh, George
In the contemplation of mind, from the highest order to the lowest rank,—from man, to the maggot that consumes him; we are imprest with the evidence of appropriate contrivance and infinite wisdom.
From Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect by Haslam, John
