IMPRESS Copy link • IMPRESS 1. s. Vid. IMPRESSION, MARK. 2. v. PROPR., To press anything upon or into another, imprimere aliquid in aliqua re or alicui rei (to press into or on; also IMPROP., of impressing on the mind): alicui re aptare et imprimere (to lay and press in upon anything; e.g., os cucurbitulae corpori): signare aliquid aliquare [e.g., cervam figuris]; and IMPROP., signare aliquid in animo (also proper word of impressing =stamping coins): imponere aliquid alicui rei or in aliqua re: applicare alicui rei (to lay or press upon; e.g., a plaster on a wound, etc.). To impress a kiss upon anybody’s lips, basium or suavium imprimere alicui († Martisalis, 10, 42, 5; Apul., Met., 2, p. 119, 6); osculum applicare alicui († Ov., Fast., 4, 851); osculum alicui ingerere (suddenly, against the person’s will, Suet., Gramm., 23). To impress a figure on wax, exprimere imaginem alicujus in cera (Plaut., Pseud., 1, 1, 54: so faciem alicujus gypso, Plin.) IMPROPR., Of impressing the mind, imprimere aliquid in animo, or mente, or in animo atque mente alicujus; imprimere menti alicujus, or imprimere alicui: insculpere aliquid in mente (to engrave it, as it were, on the mind; also with ut; e.g., ut deos aeternos... haberemus, Cic.): signare aliquid in animo (to stamp it on the mind). (The words are found in this connection and order.) imprimere et quasi signare aliquid in animo (Cic.): affigere: infigere (the former post-Augustan, to fix into, etc.): inculcare (litterally, to tread it in; to fix anything in the mind by frequent repetition; e.g., memoriae). To impress anything on one’s memory, memoriae mandare, infigere, or affigere, or animo suo affigere; on anybody’s memory, alicujus memoriae inculcare: to be impressed upon one’s memory, haerere in memoria: to have anything impressed on one’s mind, aliquid impressum est in alicujus animo atque mente; aliquid impressum est atque inustum (of a deep, permanent impression, Cic.): to impress upon one’s heart or feelings, aliquid penitus animo suo mentique mandare; aliquid demittere in pectus or in pectus animumque. Anything has deeply impressed me, or is impressed deeply upon me, aliquid alte descendit [Vid: “to make a deep IMPRESSION”]: to be impressed upon one’s mind, in animo insculptum esse, in animo insculptum habere: to be apparently an innate motion, and impressed equally on the minds of all, innatum et in animo quasi insculptum esse: anything is deeply impressed upon me, aliquid penitus inhaerescit in mente; infixum haeret pectori meo; mihi in visceribus haeret (of warnings; Cic., Att., 6, 1, 8): to impress the notion of anything on one’s mind, imprimere notionem alicujus rei in animo suo: notions that are impressed on every mind alike, notiones in animis hominum quasi consignatae: to have impressed anything on one’s mind from one’s youth upward, (praeceptis) ab adolescentia suadere sibi.