impress Copy link Outline I. To press uponII. To urge upon the mindIII. To produce an effect upon the mindIV. To compel to enter the public service • impress: I. To press upon: imprĭmo, essi, essum, 3: to i. a seal in wax, sigillum in cera imp., Cic. Ac. 2, 26, extr.: to i. the lip of the cupping-glass upon the body, os cucurbitulae corpori imp., Cels. 2, 11. See also to press. II. To urge upon the mind: inculco, 1 (implying reiteration): to teach, or rather, i. upon the mind, tradere, vel etiam inc., Cic. de Or. 1, 28, 127: to i. a thing upon any one's memory, aliquid memoriae alicujus inc., Quint. 6, 4, 5. (Not imprimo in this sense.) III. To produce an effect upon the mind: mŏveo, mōvi, tum, 2 (to influence): Cic.: Liv.: v. impression (II.). Stronger is permoveo, Cic.: Caes. Phr.: this remark very deeply i.'d him, quod verbum in pectus (ejus) alte descendit, cf. Sall. Jug. 11, fin. IV. To compel to enter the public service: aliquem invitum scribo, sacramento adigo, etc.: v. to enlist. Or perh. conquiro, cf. Liv. 23, 32, fin., conquisitionem militum habere.
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.