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endorsement, indorsement|ɛn-, ɪnˈdɔːsmənt|
[f. endorse v. + -ment.]
The action of endorsing.
1. The action of endorsing (a document): concr. a signature, memorandum, or remark endorsed upon a document. See endorse v. 1. spec. the entering of an offence on a licence.
1547Act 1 Edward. VI, c. 5 §5 The same Endorsement to be signed with the Hand of the said Warden. 1586Sir A. Paulet in Ellis Orig. Lett. i. 220 III. 7 By reason as did appeare by an indorsement, that they had bene mistaken and were sent to Wyndsor. 1682J. Scarlett Exchanges 34 By his Endorsement he made it his own Bill. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 468 The payee..may by indorsement, or writing his name in dorso or on the back of it, assign over his whole property to the bearer. 1783Burke Rep. Committee on India Wks. XI. 289 When he made the endorsement, or whether in fact he has made it at all, are matters known only to himself. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. II. 46 Many bills..are at last presented for payment quite covered with indorsements. 1866Crump Banking 121 An indorsement is a conditional contract on the part of the indorser to pay the immediate or any succeeding indorsee, in case of the acceptor's or maker's default. 1902[see endorse v. 1 e]. 1903‘Ian Hay’ & Wodehouse Baa, Baa, Black Sheep ii. 47 May I see your licence, my dear B. B.?.. I hope it has no endorsements on it! 1960Act 8 & 9 Eliz. II c. 16. 86 (heading) Endorsement of licences.
2. fig. Confirmation, ratification, approving testimony.
1633G. Herbert Temple, Sunday i, Th' indorsement of supreme delight Writ by a friend. 1863Draper Intell. Devel. Europe (1865) 552 It received a most emphatic endorsement from the organic world. 1879H. George Progr. & Pov. i. i. (1881) 18 This doctrine..bears the indorsement of the very highest names. |