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noun
Imprest  n.  A kind of earnest money; loan; specifically, money advanced for some public service, as in enlistment. "The clearing of their imprests for what little of their debts they have received."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... answers; for nobody had as yet been permitted to inform him, truly and fully, of what had passed at Paris. But at night the Duke de Liancourt forced his way into the King's bedchamber, and obliged him to hear a full and animated detail of the disasters of the day in Paris. He went to bed fearfully imprest. The decapitation of de Launay worked powerfully through the night on the whole Aristocratic party; insomuch that in the morning those of the greatest influence on the Count d'Artois represented to him the absolute necessity ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I • Various



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