endamage

English

Etymology

From Middle English endamagen, 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.

   Synonym: (Scotland, obsolete, rare) tinsel

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Ne ought he car'd, whom he endamaged / By tortious wrong, or whom bereau'd of right.

   • 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:

     My picture vanish'd, vanish feares, / That I can be endamag'd by that art […].