Definitions for imprests

imprests im·prest

Spelling: [im-prest]
IPA: /ˈɪm prɛst/

Imprests is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 379 anagrams from letters in imprests (eimprsst).

Definitions for imprests

noun

  1. an advance of money; loan.
  2. the act of impressing.
  3. a mark made by or as by pressure; stamp; imprint.
  4. a distinctive character or effect imparted:
  5. impressment.

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of impress1 .
  2. simple past tense and past participle of impress2 .

verb (used with object)

  1. to affect deeply or strongly in mind or feelings; influence in opinion:
  2. to fix deeply or firmly on the mind or memory, as ideas or facts:
  3. to urge, as something to be remembered or done:
  4. to press (a thing) into or on something.
  5. to impose a particular characteristic or quality upon (something):
  6. to produce (a mark, figure, etc.) by pressure; stamp; imprint:
  7. to apply with pressure, so as to leave a mark.
  8. to subject to or mark by pressure with something.
  9. to furnish with a mark, figure, etc., by or as if by stamping.
  10. Electricity. to produce (a voltage) or cause (a voltage) to appear or be produced on a conductor, circuit, etc.
  11. to press or force into public service, as sailors.
  12. to seize or take for public use.
  13. to take or persuade into service by forceful arguments:

verb (used without object)

  1. to create a favorable impression; draw attention to oneself:

Origin of imprests

1560-70; probably noun use of obsolete v. imprest to advance money to Italian imprestare Latin im- im-1 + praestāre to be respons

Examples for imprests

So home, mightily pleased in mind that I have got my bills of imprest cleared by bills signed this day, to my good satisfaction.

The evening on which I saw the Rhine for the first time, I was imprest with the same idea.

The pressed sailors often deserted with the “imprest money” given them.

Note how each sentence is rounded out into fulness, until it is imprest upon your memory.

God gyue them his grace and make them imprest as true Christians ought.

Arthur Mainwaring was a commissioner of the customs, and auditor of the imprest.

Word Value for imprests
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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