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
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
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
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