What does express mean?

Expressadjective

Etymology: from the verb.

1. Copied; resembling; exactly like.

Of his presence many a sign
Still following thee, still compassing thee round
With goodness and paternal love; his face
Express, and of his steps the track divine.
John Milton, P. Lost.

2. Plain; apparent; in direct terms.

There hath been some doubt whether containing in Scripture do import express setting down in plain terms; or else comprehending in such sort, that by reason we may from thence conclude all things which are necessary.
Richard Hooker, b. i.

There is not any positive law of men, whether general or particular, received by formal express consent, as in councils; or by secret approbation; but the same may be taken away, if occasion serves.
Richard Hooker, b. iv. s. 14.

All the gazers on the skies,
Read not in fair heaven’s story
Expresser truth, or truer glory,
Than they might in her bright eyes.
Ben Jonson, Epigr.

3. Clear; not dubious.

I love to feel myself of an express and settled judgment and affection, in things of the greatest moment.
Henry More, Div. Dial.

As to the testimonies of the fathers, let them be never so express against all sorts of prayers and invocations, they hold only of such a sort of prayer.
Edward Stillingfleet.

Where reason or scripture is express for any opinion, or action, we may receive it as of divine authority.
John Locke.

4. On purpose; for a particular end.

They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought, by those discoveries which God hath made in Scripture, would stand out against any evidence whatsoever; even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.
Francis Atterbury, Serm.