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addorse

addorse verb: to place back-to-back, to place with the back to (something else's back).

Verb

addorse (third-person singular simple present addorses, present participle addorsing, simple past and past participle addorsed)

  1. To place back-to-back, to place with the back to (something else's back).
    • I replied (out of a former letter from your Lordship) with some marvel why this Signory did not by their own resident in England motion the matter to the resident there of the States rather than addorse it upon his Majesty.1907, Logan Pearsall Smith, Sir Henry Wotton, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, page 455
    • ... arranged pairs of imaginary beasts; each faces a mirror-image counterpart along a “hind” axis. The band can thus be read in either of two ways and at the same time: as pairs of affronting and / or addorsing griffins.1989 November 1, Howell Chickering, Thomas H Seiler, The Study of Chivalry: Resources and Approaches, ISD LLC, →ISBN, page 380

Forms of addorse

third-person singular presentaddorses
present participleaddorsing
past participleaddorsed
pastaddorsed

Origin of addorse

See addorsed. Compare French adosser (and thence, Spanish adosar).

Questions about addorse

What does addorse mean?
Addorse means to place back-to-back, to place with the back to (something else's back).
What part of speech is addorse?
Addorse is a verb.
What is the past tense of addorse?
The past tense of addorse is addorsed.

Words near addorse in the dictionary

  1. addons
  2. addoom
  3. addoomed
  4. addooming
  5. addooms
  6. addorse
  7. addorsed
  8. addorses
  9. addorsing
  10. ADDOs
  11. addra

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