imprimatur

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Official approval or license to print or publish, especially as granted by a censor or an ecclesiastical authority.

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Official approval; sanction.

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A mark of official approval.

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Let it be printed: a formula signed by an official licenser of the press and attached to the matter so authorized to be printed.

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n. A license to print, granted by the licenser of the press; hence, a license in general.

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A license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; also, in countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval of that which is published.

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Permission granted from a designated ecclesiastical authority to publish a book or other document; — required by church law for Catholics, especially ecclesiastics, who wish to publish.

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Official approval for some proposed activity.

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An official license to publish or print something, especially when censorship applies.