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
ii 163.7506
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: c.1300
)
unkes il ne vout hauberk
endoser
427
(
1267;
MS: c.1300
)
Kar la fei est, saciez sanz fable, Escu encountre le diable E hauberc ke humme ad
endossé
5831
(
1280-1307;
MS: s.xiv1/4
)
Endossez le hauberc
266.451
2to write on the back of a document:
(
c.1265
)
donkes
endossera le viscounte en le bref les nouns des meynpernours
91
(
1313-14
)
e
endorsa son noun derere en la testament
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.
30-31 Ed I 443
(
1305
)
la quele peticioun fust
endossee qe le dit J. fust restitut al dit office
i 191
(
1420
)
qe [...] bille ou peticione soit
endocé par tielx paroles [...]
iv 127
4to give support to:
(
1347
)
qe nul grant de la terre ne autre ne meigntiegne ne
endosse traitours, felouns
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
5880
1backed, supported:
(
1376-77
)
il
(=the papal Collector) est si
endossez de prelatz [...] qe remede n’ent ad esté fait
ii 373
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endosser (s.xii3/4)