Children, the final imprimatur to family life, are being borrowed, adopted, created by artificial insemination.
An official license to publish or print something, especially when censorship applies
The Cheats · A Comedy · Written in the Year, M.DC.LXII. Imprimatur, Roger L'estrange. Nov. 5. 1663. By John Wilson.
the Latin for it may be printed: a permission to print found in books where publication required sanction by Church or State
Latin for "let it be printed '' The first sheets of stamps from an approved plate, normally checked and retained in a file prior to a final directive to begin stamp production from a plate
If something such as a product has someone's imprimatur, that person has given it their official approval, for example by allowing their name to be shown on it. a tennis racket bearing Andre Agassi's imprimatur
also, in countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval of that which is published
Literally, it means "Let it be printed " It is an official formula of licence to print or publish, affixed by a censor or board of censors to a book or pamphlet In the Catholic Bible versions, a bishop or archbishop is listed as the imprimatur
{i} official permit to publish a book; permit, license; official approval of a person