indent

UK /ˈɪndɛnt/ US /ˈɪndɛnt/
verb 5noun 4

Definitions

noun

1

A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.

2

A stamp; an impression.

3

A certificate, or intended certificate, issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt.

4

A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.

verb

1

To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth

to indent the edge of paper

2

To be cut, notched, or dented.

3

To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress

indent a smooth surface with a hammer

to indent wax with a stamp

4

To cut the two halves of a document in duplicate, using a jagged or wavy line so that each party could demonstrate that their copy was part of the original whole.

5

To enter into a binding agreement by means of such documents; to formally commit (to doing something); to contract.

The Polanders indented with Henry, Duke of Anjou, their new-chosen king, to bring with him an hundred families of artificers into Poland.

And is this now the Person who is to oblige his Maker? to indent and drive bargains with the Almighty?

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