1. an official license to print or publish a book, pamphlet, etc., especially a license issued by a censor of the Roman Catholic Church.
2. sanction or approval; support.
"'We fled the country when we heard what was happening at Bluttenbad, taking only our leotards, tights, toe shoes, and tennis rackets (picking up alarm clocks for symbolic, not time-telling, purposes as we skulked through Amplochacha in the dead of night), and by the grace of God, on fake passports, we journeyed to a distant land with intentions to immigrate once a cousin there could secure through hidden connections our fast-forward imprimatur,' explained Kamila on behalf of Ladislas, Toosla, and Laslo to Rafael Todos los Muertos, who'd tracked them down and was conducting an elusive interview by phone....
"'It's either the apogee of design for this apoplectic decade or a blunder of vast dimensions,' equivocated Jacomino Vervazzo, withholding his weighty imprimatur from Eloria's new opera house - where dislocated divas and truculent tenors alike declared they would never air their arias."
- Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative
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