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endosser (s.xii3/4)
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endosser (s.xii3/4)

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endocer,  endoscer,  endoser;  endorcer,  endorser  
  FEW:  dorsum 3,145b Gdf:  endosser 3,133a GdfC:  endosser 9,458a TL: endosser 3,290 DEAF:  dos (endosser)  DMF:  endosser  TLF:  endosser  OED:  endoss v.  MED:  endosen v.  DMLBS:  indorsare 1334c

v.trans.

1costumeto put on (one's back), don: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Son boen hauberc fist demander [...] Prof l’aveit ja tot endossé, ço detriers a devant torné, Arriere l’a mult tost jeté  Rom de Rou wace ii 163.7506
( s.xiiiin; MS: c.1300 )  unkes il ne vout hauberk endoser  Boeve 427
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Kar la fei est, saciez sanz fable, Escu encountre le diable E hauberc ke humme ad endossé  Lum Lais ANTS 5831
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Endossez le hauberc  LANGTOFT thiol2 266.451
2to write on the back of a document: 
( c.1265 )  donkes endossera le viscounte en le bref les nouns des meynpernours  Fet assaver 91
( 1313-14 )  e endorsa son noun derere en la testament  YBB Ed II vii 40
3lawto endorse: 
( 1303 )  mustra a la court le lybel enselé de sun seal demeyn et la consultacion endossé ové le seal Sir R.B.  YBB 30-31 Ed I 443
( 1305 )  la quele peticioun fust endossee qe le dit J. fust restitut al dit office  Rot Parl1 i 191
( 1420 )  qe [...] bille ou peticione soit endocé par tielx paroles [...]  Rot Parl1 iv 127
4to give support to: 
( 1347 )  qe nul grant de la terre ne autre ne meigntiegne ne endosse traitours, felouns  Rot Parl1 ii 165
5to stand with one’s back to: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Alisandre [...] Defent sey vers trestoz [...] Quel talent qe toz aient, le mur ad endossé  Rom Chev ANTS 5880
endosser que
to make a note on the back to the effect that: 
( 1292 )  Le viconte en ceo retourna le recordare, e endossa ke la cause fut fause  YBB 20-21 Ed I 359

p.p. as a.

backed, supported: 
( 1376-77 )  il (=the papal Collector) est si endossez de prelatz [...] qe remede n’ent ad esté fait  Rot Parl1 ii 373

See also:

adosser 
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