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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. Variant of endorse.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To place something on the back of; burden; load.
  2. To write one's name, or some brief remark, statement, or memorandum, on the back of (a paper or document), as in assigning, or guaranteeing the payment of, a note or bill of exchange, or in briefing or docketing legal papers, invoices, etc.: as, the bill was indorsed to the bank; he was looking for a friend to indorse his note; a letter indorsed “London, 1868”: loosely used of writing added upon any part of a document.
  3. To sanction; ratify; approve: as, to indorse a statement or the opinions of another.
  4. In heraldry, to place back to back.
  5. n. In heraldry, a bearing like the pale, but of one fourth its width. It may be borne in any part of the field, and is commonly charged one indorse on each side of the pale. It is often considered a subordinary.

Wiktionary

  1. v. UK, India, rare Alternative form of endorse.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To cover the back of; to load or burden.
  2. v. To write upon the back or outside of a paper or letter, as a direction, heading, memorandum, or address.
  3. v. (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.).
  4. v. To give one's name or support to; to sanction; to aid by approval; to approve.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. give support or one's approval to
  2. v. sign as evidence of legal transfer
  3. v. guarantee as meeting a certain standard
  4. v. be behind; approve of

Etymologies

  1. 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"), 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’; at the same time the ‘e’ (French) was changed to ‘i’ (Latin) (in-, rather than en-). Note that the alternative form endorse is now more common, retaining the restored ‘r’ but reverting to the initial ‘e’, rather than the Latinate ‘i’. (Wiktionary)

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