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noun

Imprimatur n.

(Law) A license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; also, in countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval of that which is published.

(R. C. Ch.) Permission granted from a designated eccliastical authority to publish a book or other document; required by church law for Catholics, especially ecclesiastics, who wish to publish.

Hence: Official approval for some proposed activity; as, a contract this large needs the imprimatur of the legal department.

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Etymology of 'Imprimatur'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Imprimatur" Quotes from Famous Books

... that, with the exception of the version in Lippincott's Magazine only those editions are authorised to be sold in Great Britain and her Colonies which bear the imprimatur of Ward, Lock & Co., London, or Charles Carrington, Paris and Brussels; and that all other editions, whether American, Continental (save Carrington's Paris editions above specified) or otherwise, may not ...

— The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde