| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Present participle | 1. Seldom used present participle conjugation of the verb indorse.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (indorse) | 1. Be behind; approve of.[Wordnet]. 2. Give support or one's approval to.[Wordnet]. 3. Guarantee as meeting a certain standard.[Wordnet]. 4. Sign as evidence of legal transfer.[Wordnet]. 5. Of documents or cheques.[Wordnet]. 6. To cover the back of; to load or burden.[Websters]. 7. To write upon the back or outside of a paper or letter, as a direction, heading, memorandum, or address.[Websters]. 8. 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 /ote, 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.).[Websters]. 9. To give one's name or support to; to sanction; to aid by approval; to approve; as, to indorse an opinion.[Websters]. 10. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: indorsing, indorsed, indorses, indorser, indorsers, indorsingly and indorsedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "INDORSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1514. (references) |
Specialty Definition: indorse
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] indors'.. | 2: [Verb] To write on the back of a paper or written instrument; as, to indorse a note or bill of exchange; to indorse a receipt or assignment on a bill or note. Hence,. | 3: [Verb] To assign by writing an order on the back of a note or bill; to assign or transfer by indorsement. The bill was indorsed to the bank. To indorse in blank, to write a name only on a note or bill, leaving a blank to be filled by the indorsee.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| 19th Century Satire | To write on the back of; the best indorsed man in town being the Sandwich-Man. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. | ||
| Tips from 1870 | 1: Usage: Indorse, Endorse. From the Latin dorsum, the back, these words have come to mean the writing of one's name across the back of a check or draft or other commercial paper to signify its transfer to another or to secure its payment. To indorse a man's arguments or opinions is an incorrect use of the word. 2: While both forms of spelling the word are in good usage, indorse seems to be coming into more general favor. Source: Slips of Speech. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] (UK, India, rare) To endorse. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: indorse
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| To indorse | Law | TO INDORSE. To write on the back. Bills of exchange and promissory notes are indorsed by the party writing his name on the back; writing one's name on the back of a writ, is to indorse such writ. 7 Pick. 117. See 13 Mass. 396. (references) | |
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