imprimatur

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

Official approval; sanction.

A mark of official approval.

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

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

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.

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.

Official approval for some proposed activity.

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