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Imprimatur

[Latin, Let it be printed.] A license or allowance, granted by the constituted authorities, giving permission to print and publish a book. This allowance was formerly necessary in England before any book could lawfully be printed, and in some other countries is still required.

IMPRIMATUR. A license or allowance to one to print.
2. At one time, before a book could be printed in England, it was requisite that a permission should be obtained that permission was called an imprimatur. In some countries where the press is liable to censure, an imprimatur is required.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Kaltenbach's work haunts current art procedures: Where Tino Sehgal stridently authorizes and controls "his" immateriality by relying on institutional imprimatur to publicize and textually materialize his investment in signatory ego, notoriety, and recognition, Kaltenbach has always been more interested in circulating ideas--literally--on the free market, unsigned.

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This collection of some 9,000 quotations has been assembled by a team of thirty-seven contributors and is given an imprimatur by Simon Schama.

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(1.) Ham/Hamilton Laughlin's famous characterization of poor southern whites, though stated in the 1925 case that eventually gave constitutional imprimatur to the compulsory sterilization of the "unfit," reflected the attitudes of many southern Sunday school advocates.

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To have to wait for the imprimatur of such individuals is my major challenge," she laments.

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Test-tube babies are denied the papal imprimatur because they represent the hubris of engineering what was once universally considered a matter of divine will or natural law.