imprimatur (A license to print or publish by Roman Catholic episcopal authority)

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• imprimatur — noun Etymology: New Latin, let it be printed, from imprimere to print, from Latin, to imprint, impress more at impress Date: 1640 1. a. a license to print or publish especially by Roman Catholic episcopal authority b. approval of a publication… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Censorship of Books — • Either ecclesiastical or civil, according as it is practiced by the spiritual or secular authority, and it may be exercised in two ways, viz.: before the printing or publishing of a work, by examining it (censura prævia); and after the printing …   Catholic encyclopedia