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Endorse   /ɛndˈɔrs/   Listen
verb
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)  
1.
To cover the back of; to load or burden. (Obs.) "Elephants indorsed with towers."
2.
To write upon the back or outside of a paper or letter, as a direction, heading, memorandum, or address.
3.
(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.
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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"Endorse" Quotes from Famous Books



... opinion the married men present were not prepared to endorse, and one or two minor arguments and lectures ensued anent a woman's ...
— A Bride of the Plains • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... however, did not endorse Mr Brandram's view as to Borrow continuing in Spain, and further, they did "not see it right," the secretary wrote (6th August), "after the confidential communication in which you have been in with the Government, ...
— The Life of George Borrow • Herbert Jenkins

... very well endorse the breach of faith legend. He knew that the engagement about the delivery of arms was reciprocal, and that, as France had failed to ratify it on her part, King Constantine rightly considered himself free from all obligations on his part. He also knew that, far from being lured into ...
— Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 • G. F. Abbott

... Madame la Marechale I shall not think myself successful," replied the cousin; "but they are all beginning to wish for it.—This morning I went to Victorin's—I forgot to tell you.—The young Hulots have bought up their father's notes of hand given to Vauvinet, and to-morrow they will endorse a bill for seventy-two thousand francs at five per cent, payable in three years, and secured by a mortgage on their house. So the young people are in straits for three years; they can raise no more ...
— Cousin Betty • Honore de Balzac

... the War were wickedly engaged in doing all sorts of damage to the country, appalling to contemplate. But since the War began they are doing what they can to retrieve a lurid past, and we believe that History (our intimate colleague who waits to endorse at a later stage the views expressed in these columns) will pronounce that they have displayed ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 • Various


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