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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
indorse .
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Examples
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Aug. 19 -- Parliament endorses [Transcriber: original 'indorses']
The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 Various
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Correspondent, who upon Receipt indorses the Bill of Lading, and delivers it up to the Master, and this Bill thus endorsed, will [illegible] the other two in the Merchants Hands.
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They pervert scripture, take isolated passages and present an ominum gatherum of quotations to prove the Bible indorses the use of strong drink.
Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures George W. Bain
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For example: A note is payable to "John Jay or order," or to "the order of John Jay," who indorses it in blank which makes it payable to any other holder.
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If you make your check payable say, to William Armstrong or order, nobody but William Armstrong, or some one to whom he indorses the check, can collect the amount, and if through fraud or otherwise some one not entitled to it gets the money which the check calls for, the responsibility is not yours, but the bank's.
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens
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States and in the other the credit of the man who indorses our paper.
Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) Various
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He unwarrantably indorses statements made by Germany in her attempt to put the Allies in the wrong.
New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various
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The mother, therefore, who is able to review the matter in dispute calmly, justly, and withal sympathetically, and who indorses the teacher's action after such review, is a better conserver of the public peace than the prejudging mother.
Vocational Guidance for Girls Marguerite Stockman Dickson
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Not satisfied with attributing to him political offences that do not necessarily imply baseness in the offender, Mr. Froude indorses the most odious charges that have been brought against
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In the chapter on "Secession," which is the best in the book, he indorses Charles Sumner's theory of State suicide; holds that the Southern States are now "under the Union, not of it," and seems quite inclined to pardon Mr. Lincoln for abolishing slavery by proclamation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various
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