Crossword clues for indorse
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indorse \In*dorse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indorsed; p. pr. & vb. n. Indorsing.] [LL. indorsare. See Endorse.] [Written also endorse.]
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To cover the back of; to load or burden. [Obs.]
Elephants indorsed with towers.
--Milton. To write upon the back or outside of a paper or letter, as a direction, heading, memorandum, or address.
(Law & Com.) To write one's name, alone or with other words, upon the back of (a paper), for the purpose of transferring it, or to secure the payment of a note, draft, or the like; to guarantee the payment, fulfillment, performance, or validity of, or to certify something upon the back of (a check, draft, writ, warrant of arrest, etc.).
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To give one's name or support to; to sanction; to aid by approval; to approve; as, to indorse an opinion.
To indorse in blank, to write one's name on the back of a note or bill, leaving a blank to be filled by the holder.
Wiktionary
vb. (context British India rare English) (alternative form of endorse English)
WordNet
v. be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960" [syn: back, endorse, plump for, plunk for, support]
give support or one's approval to; "I'll second that motion"; "I can't back this plan"; "endorse a new project" [syn: second, back, endorse]
guarantee as meeting a certain standard; "certified grade AAA meat" [syn: certify, endorse]
of documents or cheques [syn: endorse]
Usage examples of "indorse".
I therefore, ladies and gentlemen of New Jersey, content myself with saying, most heartily do I indorse all the sentiments he has expressed.
Yet such illegal organizations, though they are neither States nor State governments, and incapable of being legalized by any action of the Executive or of Congress, may, nevertheless, be legalized by being indorsed or acquiesced in by the territorial people.
Chapin, whose excellent project is indorsed by well-known New York physicians and professors, proposes to publish a yearly index to original communications in the medical journals of the United States, classified by authors and subjects.
All other writers who have accepted and indorsed his views are of later date, and but follow him, while Bradford and Winslow, who were victims of this Dutch conspiracy against them, if it ever existed, were entirely silent in their writings upon the matter, which we may be sure they would not have been, had they suspected the Dutch as prime movers in the treachery.