endoss

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verb

To write on the back of (a document); to endorse.

OriginMiddle English [Term?] ← Old French endosser →
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Meanings

verbendoss (third-person singular simple present endosses, present participle endossing, simple past and past participle endossed)

present singular third person endosses · participle present endossing · participle past endossed · past endossed

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo write on the back of (a document); to endorse.
  2. obsoletetransitiveTo inscribe; to depict on any surface.

    he […] Gave me a shield, in which he did endosse / His deare Redeemers badge upon the bosse […]

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Old Frenchendosser
  2. Middle English[Term?]
  3. Englishendoss

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French endosser. Doublet of endorse.

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APA

endoss. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endoss

MLA

“endoss.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endoss. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “endoss,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/endoss.

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