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empresser1 (c.1185)
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empresser1 (c.1185)

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enpresser;  impresser;  enpreissier  
  FEW:  pressare 9,362a Gdf:  empresser 3,73c GdfC:  empresser (s') 9,446a TL: empresser 3,136 DEAF:  presser (empresser)  DMF:  empresser  / empressé  TLF:  empresser (s')  OED:  empress v.  / impress v.1  MED:  impressen v.  DMLBS:  impressare 1268b

v.trans.

1to press (upon): 
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  od [...] le puing senestre enpreissié sur le penil, od memes les dois traitiez le col de la veissie  A-N Med i 80
♦fig.to press, importune: 
( 1355 )  Et tant empressa le dit ducs [...] qe le ducs lui promist qe l’alliance se prendroit  Rot Parl1 ii 264
2to crush: 
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  Meint vassal i out defulé E meint esteint e empressé  Ipom BFR 4928
♦to oppress: 
( 1378 )  voz liges […] sont empressez par destresses pris [..]  Rot Parl1 iii 45
3to imprint, be imprinted: 
( 1356-57; MS: s.xivex )  Et en celle roche est empressé la fourme de son corps qar il se ferist si durement en la roche  Mandeville 168

p.p. as a.

impressed, stamped: 
( 1360 )  Donné souz nostre privé seal ovesqes le signet de nostre anelle impressé en le dos de meisme nostre seal  GAUNT2 ii 303

See also:

empreindre  empression  impresse  impressure 
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