endamage

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French endamagier.

Verb

endamage (third-person singular simple present endamages, present participle endamaging, simple past and past participle endamaged)

  1. (archaic) To damage.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ii:
      Ne ought he car'd, whom he endamaged / By tortious wrong, or whom bereau'd of right.
    • a. 1631, John Donne, ‘Witchcraft by a picture’, Poems (1633):
      My picture vanish'd, vanish feares, / That I can be endamag'd by that art […].
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