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endoss

endoss verb: to write on the back of (a document); to endorse.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To write on the back of (a document); to endorse.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To 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

Forms of endoss

third-person singular presentendosses
present participleendossing
past participleendossed
pastendossed

Origin of endoss

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

Questions about endoss

What does endoss mean?
Endoss means to write on the back of (a document); to endorse.
What part of speech is endoss?
Endoss is a verb.
What is the past tense of endoss?
The past tense of endoss is endossed.

Words near endoss in the dictionary

  1. endosporulation
  2. endosporulations
  3. endosporulator
  4. endosporulators
  5. endospory
  6. endoss
  7. endossed
  8. endosseous
  9. endosses
  10. endossing
  11. endostain

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