3. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp. South.
4. A device. See Impresa. Cussans. To describe . . . emblazoned shields, Impresses quaint. Milton.
5. Etym: [See Imprest, Press to force into service.]
Defn: The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed. Why such impress of shipwrights Shak. Impress gang, a party of men, with an officer, employed to impress seamen for ships of war; a press gang. — Impress money, a sum of money paid, immediately upon their entering service, to men who have been impressed.
IMPRESSIBILITY
Im*press`i*bil"i*ty, n.
Defn: The quality of being impressible; susceptibility.
IMPRESSIBLE
Im*press"i*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. impressible.]
Defn: Capable of being impressed; susceptible; sensitive.
— Im*press"i*ble*ness, n.
— Im*press"i*bly, adv.
IMPRESSION
Im*pres"sion, n. Etym: [F. impression, L. impressio.]
1. The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.