Definition of Impresa

1. n. A device on a shield or seal, or used as a bookplate or the like.

Definition of Impresa

1. a type of emblem [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Impresa

impregnate
impregnated
impregnates
impregnating
impregnation
impregnations
impregnator
impregnators
impregned
impregning
impregns
imprehend
imprejudicate
imprenable
impreparation
impresa (current term)
impresario
impresarios
impresas
imprescriptibility
imprescriptible
imprescriptibly
imprese
impreses
impress
impresse
impressed
impressed(p)
impresses
impressibility

Literary usage of Impresa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. From Academia to Amicitia: Milton's Latin Writings and the Italian Academies by Estelle Haan (1998)
"... impresa is like the body; its motto is like the soul;46 the second examines in some detail the general impresa and motto of the Svogliati. ..."

2. Drummond of Hawthornden: The Story of His Life and Writings by David Masson (1873)
"Though " emblems and impresas sometimes seem like each other, what " is a perfection in an emblem is a great fault in an impresa, " The words of the emblem ..."

3. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1842)
"An impresa of Marie of Lorraine, her Mother, a Phoenix in flames, ... The impresa of an Apple tree growing in a Thorn, the word, Per vincula crescit. ..."

4. Historia Crítica de la Literatura Espanola by José Amador de los Ríos (1865)
"En el primer capítulo, que en la crónica impresa se reduce á breves líneas, ... El segundo capítulo, suprimido en la impresa, que es de sumo interés, ..."

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