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Such impressional changes as we have referred to, if produced after this, must be in the nature of backward growth or an inversion of trophic influences or a great perversion of embryonic life.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

It is not to be expected that posterity will take much interest in him, for his point and meaning are impressional.

From Emerson and Other Essays by Chapman, John Jay

The impressional world is the miseries, as desire, aversion, &c., caused by the affectional world, the lesser miseries, as conceit, pride, &c., and merit and demerit.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava

The sentient soul is nervous, sensational, emotional, phenomenal, and impressional.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

The artists, whose minds were probably the most impressional, were his fervent adherents.

From Fra Bartolommeo by Kendrick, Flora