reimˈpress, v.
[re- 5 a.]
To impress anew.
| 1667 Decay Chr. Piety v. ¶13 Every particular command..tending to re-impress on us some part of that divine image. a 1711 Ken Sion Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 380 The lovely Graces on dear Psyche's Breast Macario's Speech so deeply re-imprest. 1779–81 Johnson L.P., Milton (1868) 63 Religion..will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances. 1838 Lytton Alice ii. ii, The whole family were duly impressed and re-impressed with her importance. 1860 Pusey Min. Proph. 192 He reimpresses on them the one simple need of the creature, seek God. 1883 H. W. V. Stuart Egypt 217 The deity having the power to reimpress the deceased with life. |