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Endorse v. t. (past & past part. endorsed; pres. part. endorsing) Same as Indorse. Note: Both endorse and indorse are used by good writers; but the tendency is to the more general use of indorse and its derivatives indorsee, indorser, and indorsement.

Indorse v. t. (past & past part. indorsed; pres. part. indorsing) (Written also endorse)

To cover the back of; to load or burden. (Obs.) "Elephants indorsed with towers."

To write upon the back or outside of a paper or letter, as a direction, heading, memorandum, or address.

(Law & Com.) To write one's name, alone or with other words, upon the back of (a paper), for the purpose of transferring it, or to secure the payment of a note, draft, or the like; to guarantee the payment, fulfillment, performance, or validity of, or to certify something upon the back of (a check, draft, writ, warrant of arrest, etc.).

To give one's name or support to; to sanction; to aid by approval; to approve; as, to indorse an opinion.

To indorse in blank, to write one's name on the back of a note or bill, leaving a blank to be filled by the holder.

noun

Endorse n. (Her.) A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth).

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Etymology of 'Endorse'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Endorse" Quotes from Famous Books

... to keep a check book, make out checks and deposit slips, endorse checks, and balance ...

— Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts • Girl Scouts

... God? Does this extend merely to man and not to Satan? Is it not evident that Calvin's scheme in regard to the sin of the first man, is here most emphatically condemned out of his own mouth? Does he not here endorse the very consequence which his adversaries have been accustomed to deduce from his scheme of predestination, namely, that it makes God ...

— A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory • Albert Taylor Bledsoe

... quote and warmly endorse this advice from Mr. Herbert Hoagland, censor of photoplays ...

— Writing the Photoplay • J. Berg Esenwein and Arthur Leeds

... in horror and alarm at his words, and his looks seemed to endorse their truth, but a calm smile came upon her lips, and she went to ...

— Witness to the Deed • George Manville Fenn

... back your Grand-duke? Observe, there's no one to force it,— Unless the Madonna, Saint Luke Drew for you, choose to endorse it. I charge you, by great Saint Martino And prodigies quickened by wrong, Remember your Dead on Ticino; Be worthy, be constant, be strong— Bah!—call ...

— The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV • Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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