imprinter
(ɪmˈprɪntə(r))
[f. imprint v. + -er1.]
One who or that which imprints or impresses; † a printer (obs.). With quot. 1638 cf. impriment.
| 1548–9 (Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer Colophon, The Imprinter to sell this Booke in Queres. 1561 T. Norton Calvin's Inst. Pref. Contents, I doe pray and request the Readers that if they doe finde any [mistakes], they shall advertise the Imprinter. 1638 Rawley tr. Bacon's Life & Death 421 Malacissation is wrought, by Consubstantials; by Imprinters; and by Closers up. [Bacon Hist. Vitæ & Mortis Canon xxvi. 443 Malacissatio fit, per Consubstantialia, Imprimentia, & Occludentia.] a 1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 333 Are forty winters such faint imprinters Of age on a thing of thy mould? |