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Webster 1913 Edition

Endorse

En-dorse′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Endorsed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Endorsing
.]
[Formerly
endosse
, fr. F.
endosser
to put on the back, to endorse; pref.
en-
(L.
in
) +
dos
back, L.
dorsum
. See
Dorsal
, and cf.
Indorse
.]
Same as
Indorse
.
☞ 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.

En-dorse′

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

Webster 1828 Edition

Endorse

ENDORSE

, ENDORSEMENT. [See Indorse, Indorsement.]

Definition 2024

endorse

endorse

English

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Verb

endorse ‎(third-person singular simple present endorses, present participle endorsing, simple past and past participle endorsed)

  1. To support, to back, to give one's approval to, especially officially or by signature.
  2. To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it to a third party, or cashing it.
  3. To give an endorsement.

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Noun

A shield with a pale endorsed azure (blue pale between blue endorses).

endorse ‎(plural endorses)

  1. (heraldry) A diminutive of the pale, usually appearing in pairs on either side of a pale.

Usage notes

When a narrow, vertical stripe appears in a coat of arms, it is usually termed a pallet when used as the primary charge in the absence of a pale. The term endorse is typically used only when the stripes flank a central and wider pale. Diminutive stripes flanking other ordinaries are termed cottises.

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References

  1. ↑ “endorse” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
  2. 1 2 Oxford-Paravia Concise - Dizionario Inglese-Italiano e Italiano-Inglese. Maria Cristina Bareggi, ed. Torino: Paravia, 2003 (in collaboration with Oxford University Press). ISBN 8839551107. Online version at

Etymology

Alteration influenced by Medieval Latin indorsare of Middle English endosse, from Old French endosser ‎(“to put on back”), from Latin dossum, alternative form of dorsum ‎(“back”),[1] from which also dorsal ‎(“of the back”). That is, the ‘r’ was dropped in Latin dossum, which developed into Old French and then Middle English endosse, and then the ‘r’ was re-introduced into English via the Medieval Latin indorsare, which had retained the ‘r’. Note that the alternative spelling indorse also uses the initial ‘i’ from Latin (in-, rather than en-), but this form is now rare.

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