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Webster 1828 Edition


Imprinted

IMPRINT'ED

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Marked by pressure; printed; fixed in the mind or memory.

Definition 2024


imprinted

imprinted

English

Verb

imprinted

  1. simple past tense and past participle of imprint

Adjective

imprinted (comparative more imprinted, superlative most imprinted)

  1. Stamped or impressed.
  2. (genetics) Produced by or exhibiting imprinting; showing distinction by its origin from the paternal or maternal genome.
    • 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial 2004, p. 217:
      The inference is that there is an imprinted' gene somewhere on the X chromosome, which is normally switched on only on the paternal copy and that this gene somehow enhances the development of social adjustment [...].