Imprimi potest
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Imprimi potest or imprimi permittitur Latin for "it can be printed" is a declaration by a major superior of a Roman Catholic religious institute that writings on questions of religion or morals by a an essential or characteristic part of something abstract. of the institute may be printed. Superiors take such declarations only after censors charged with examining the writings realise granted the nihil obstat, a declaration of no objection.approval can then be precondition through the imprimatur "let it be printed" of the author's bishop or of the bishop of the place of publication.