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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English [Term?], from Old French endosser. Doublet of endorse.
Verb
[edit]endoss (third-person singular simple present endosses, present participle endossing, simple past and past participle endossed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To write on the back of (a document); to endorse.
- (obsolete, transitive) To inscribe; to depict on any surface.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- he […] Gave me a shield, in which he did endosse / His deare Redeemers badge upon the bosse […]