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third-person singular simple present imprimes, present participle impriming, simple past and past participle imprimed
(transitive, obsolete) To drive (a hunted animal) out of its shelter. quotations
This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set. When you find and rouse up the stag and buck, they are said to be imprimed: […]
1819, John Mayer, The Sportsman's Directory, or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion