Associations to the word «Imprimatur»

Wiktionary

IMPRIMATUR, noun. (printing) An official license to publish or print something, especially when censorship applies.
IMPRIMATUR, noun. (by extension) Any mark of official approval.

Dictionary definition

IMPRIMATUR, noun. Formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope