indorse
Verb
Verb Forms: indorsed, indorsing, indorses
- To sign on the back of a document; to endorse.
- be behind; approve of
- give support or one's approval to
- guarantee as meeting a certain standard
- sign as evidence of legal transfer
- Alternative form of endorse.
Examples
- No one would INDORSE his claim that ’QWERT’ was a valid Scrabble word.
Origin / Etymology
Alteration influenced by Medieval Latin indorsare of Middle English endosse, from Old French endosser (“to put on back”), from Latin dossum, alternative form of dorsum (“back”), from which also dorsal (“of the back”). That is, the ‘r’ was dropped in Latin dossum, which developed into Old French and then Middle English endosse, and then the ‘r’ was re-introduced into English via the Medieval Latin indorsare, which had retained the ‘r’; at the same time the ‘e’ (French) was changed to ‘i’ (Latin) (in-, rather than en-). Note that the alternative form endorse is now more common, retaining the restored ‘r’ but reverting to the initial ‘e’, rather than the Latinate ‘i’.
Scrabble Score: 8
indorse: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordindorse: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
indorse: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary