Word Meanings - REIMPRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To impress anew.
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- IMPRESS
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. (more info) pref. im- in, on + premere to press. See Press to squeeze, and - IMPRESSIONABLE
Liable or subject to impression; capable of being molded; susceptible; impressible. He was too impressionable; he had too much of the temperament of genius. Motley. A pretty face and an impressionable disposition. T. Hook. - IMPRESSION
The pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of such pressure, as regards its appearance; as, a heavy impression; a clear, or a poor, impression; also, a single copy as the result of printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time. - IMPRESSIBLE
Capable of being impressed; susceptible; sensitive. -- Im*press"i*ble*ness, n. -- Im*press"i*bly, adv. - IMPRESSIONISTIC
Pertaining to, or characterized by, impressionism. - IMPRESSMENT
The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors. The great scandal of our naval service -- impressment -- died a protracted death. J. H. Burton. - IMPRESSOR
One who, or that which, impresses. Boyle. - IMPRESSIBILITY
The quality of being impressible; susceptibility. - IMPRESSIONABILITY
The quality of being impressionable. - IMPRESSIONLESS
Having the quality of not being impressed or affected; not susceptible. - IMPRESSIONIST
One who adheres to the theory or method of impressionism, so called. - IMPRESSIONISM
The theory or method of suggesting an effect or impression without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a recent fashion in painting and etching. - IMPRESSURE
Dent; impression. Shak. - IMPRESSIVE
1. Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene. 2. Capable of being impressed. - IMPRESSIONABLENESS
The quality of being impressionable. - REIMPRESS
To impress anew. - NEOIMPRESSIONISM; POINTILLISM
A theory or practice which is a further development, on more rigorously scientific lines, of the theory and practice of Impressionism, originated by George Seurat , and carried on by Paul Signac and others. Its method is marked by the laying - REIMPRESSION
A second or repeated impression; a reprint. - POST-IMPRESSIONISM
In the broadest sense, the theory or practice of any of several groups of recent painters, or of these groups taken collectively, whose work and theories have in common a tendency to reaction against the scientific and naturalistic character of