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Endorse vs Endoss - What's the difference?

endorse | endoss |

As verbs the difference between endorse and endoss

is that endorse is to support, to back, to give one's approval to, especially officially or by signature while endoss is (obsolete|transitive) to write on the back of (a document); to endorse.

As a noun endorse

is (heraldiccharge) a diminutive of the pale, usually appearing in pairs on either side of a pale.

endorse

English

(Endorsement)

Alternative forms

* indorse

Verb

  • To support, to back, to give one's approval to, especially officially or by signature.
  • To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it to a third party, or cashing it.
  • To give an endorsement.

    • Derived terms

    * disendorse * endorsement

    Related terms

    * dorsal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (heraldiccharge) A diminutive of the pale, usually appearing in pairs on either side of a pale.

    • Usage notes

    When a narrow, vertical stripe appears in a coat of arms, it is usually termed a (pallet) when used as the primary charge in the absence of a pale''. The term ''endorse'' is typically used only when the stripes flank a central and wider ''pale''. Diminutive stripes flanking other ''ordinaries are termed (term).

    Related terms

    * endorsed

    References

    English words prefixed with en-

    endoss

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To write on the back of (a document); to endorse.
  • (obsolete) To inscribe; to depict on any surface.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
  • *:he […] Gave me a shield, in which he did endosse / His deare Redeemers badge upon the bosse […].