Word Meanings - ENSEAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To impress with a seal; to mark as with a seal; hence, to ratify. This deed I do enseal. Piers Plowman.

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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
• ENSEAL
  To impress with a seal; to mark as with a seal; hence, to ratify. This deed I do enseal. Piers Plowman.
• 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.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• 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.
• HENCEFORWARD
  From this time forward; henceforth.
• PLOWMAN; PLOUGHMAN
  1. One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman. Chaucer. Macaulay. 2. A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer. Plowman's spikenard , a European composite weed , having fragrant roots. Dr. Prior.
• RATIFY
  To approve and sanction; to make valid; to establish; to settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something done by an agent or servant; as, to ratify an agreement, treaty, or contract; to ratify a nomination. It is impossible for the divine
• HENCEFORTH
  From this time forward; henceforward. I never from thy side henceforth to stray. Milton.
• 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.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• REIMPRESS
  To impress anew.
• THENCE
  see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark
• ARCHENCEPHALA
  The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.
• THENCEFORTH
  From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.
• GRATIFY
  1. To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc. For who would die to gratify a foe Dryden. 2. To requite; to recompense. It remains
• WHENCEEVER
  Whencesoever.
• 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