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endamage en · VERB

Etymology

From Middle English endamagen, from Old French endamagier.

Meanings

1. (archaic) To damage.
   • Ne ought he car'd, whom he endamaged / By tortious wrong, or whom bereau'd of right. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • My picture vanish'd, vanish feares, / That I can be endamag'd by that art […]. a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “Witchcraft by a picture”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC:

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tinsel