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endamage, v.|ɛnˈdæmɪdʒ|
Forms: α. 6–7 endammage, (-dge), 5–7 -dommage, -domage, (7 -damnage), 4–5 endamage(n, 4– endamage. β. 5–7 indamage, 6 -domage, 6–7 -dammage.
[In 14th c. f. en-1 + damage n., or a. OF. *endamagier (cf. the parallel formation adamagier in 13th c.). In 15th c. refashioned as endommage, -domage, after the contemporary Fr. endommagier of equivalent formation; but this form died out early in 17th c.]
trans. To inflict damage or injury upon.
1. To affect (persons, a community, etc.) detrimentally with regard to property, health, reputation, or general well-being. Also absol.
αc1374Chaucer Boeth. i. iv. 15 It [coempcioun] schulde greetly tourmentyn and endamagen al þe prouince of compaigne. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 107 The kyng shal contynuelly be endommaged, seke of body and of the soule. a1521Helyas in Thoms Prose Rom. (1828) III. 12 If I thought to haue endomaged you of one seile [? read selie] ferdynge. 1546Langley Pol. Verg. De Invent. i. i. 1 a, To euery man..wer allotted two angels: wherof thone went about to endamage vs. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. xii. 38 That never more he mote endammadge wight With his vile tongue, which many had defamed. 1635Quarles Embl. i. xi. (1718) 47 The Devil smileth that he may endamage. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. xiii. 101 Inclosure with depopulation endamnageth the parties themselves. 1655H. Vaughan Silex Scint. i. (1858) Pref. 8 No loss is so doleful as that gain, that will endamage the soul. 1694Child Disc. Trade (ed. 4) 211 The Dutch..will in all probability never endamage this Kingdom by the growth of their Plantations. 1768Tucker Lt. Nat. I. 346 That justice is better than iniquity, springs from the powers of men to benefit or endamage one another. 1828–40Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) II. 161 That..neither the proprietor nor the cultivator [be] endamaged by the sudden desertion of the ground.
β1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 22 Pream., Many..subgettis ben..lette and indamaged in their bilding and husbondry. 1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. (1851) 37 The man could not..much indammage the Roman Empire. 1667Decay Chr. Piety v. §16, I am indammag'd in my goods.
b. To damage, injure (reputation, health, welfare); to injure, prejudice, discredit (a cause, etc.).
α1579Fenton Guicciard. (1618) 98 They might in many sorts endomage the common safetie of Italy. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 187 b, That the majestie of Freewill may not by any meanes bee endamaged. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry i. viii. (1660) 46 A guilt of endamaging the lives of millions. 1620Venner Via Recta (1650) 13 The South winde..endamageth our healths. 1674Burnet Royal Martyr (1710) 43 Nor was Christianity endamaged by all that fury. 1691Locke Money Wks. 1727 II. 14 There is so much want of Money, and Trade is still endamag'd by it. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 624 These proceedings..were endamaging their reputation. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 177 Theologians..seriously endamage a sacred cause.
β1698Christ Exalted §10. 9 These Sermons could not indamage the good Correspondence between the Brethren.
†2. To damage physically, inflict material injury upon (a person or thing); to spoil (a thing) so as to make it less fit for its purpose. Obs.
α1475Caxton Jason 30 Tronchonyng their speris upon his shelde, withoute endomagyng his shelde. 1576Baker Jewell of Health 62 Those partes endammaged or grieved with the Goute. 1578Banister Hist. Man ii. 39 Their substance was light, and Cartilaginous, to be lesse endammaged by outward force. 1583L. Mascall Plant. & Graff. (1592) 47 Take heede of those graffes, the which many wormes and Flyes doe endomage. 1667H. Stubbe in Phil. Trans. II. 495 The Guns..were not much endammaged by Rust. 1690Luttrell Brief. Rel. (1857) II. 28 A great storm..had endamaged several of the ships. 1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. iii. x. (1743) 205 The Thames swells..over its banks, and Westminster is a little endamaged in its Cellars. 1816Scott Antiq. iii. [Calthrops] to endamage the sitting part of a learned professor of Utrecht.
β1583L. Mascall Plant. & Graff. (1592) Exhort., Cattell, indomaging your plants or Trees. 1686Voy. Emp. China to E. Tartary in Misc. Cur. (1708) III. 190 The Bark..was..indammaged by the agitation of the Waves.
†3. In military sense: To do harm to (the enemy, a hostile country). Obs.
1555Fardle Facions ii. ix. 191 There neuer medled any power with theim, that was able to conquer theim: or muche to endamage theim. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. viii. vii. 404 Then coasting the shore, shrewdly endammaged Kent. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. xxvi. (1821) 471 To endammage the Enemy that hee may not hinder you. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece 1 xxvi. (1715) 151 The Cause of weakening or endamaging my Country.
¶4. Used for endanger v. 4.
a1648Ld. Herbert Hen. VIII (1783) 341 He will endamage the loss of one half of his Realm. |