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In some senses, indent is marked as obsolete, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
A cut or notch in the margin of anything, or a recess like a notch.
A stamp; an impression.
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.
A requisition or order for supplies, sent to the commissariat of an army.
verb
To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth
to indent the edge of paper
To be cut, notched, or dented.
To dent; to stamp or to press in; to impress
indent a smooth surface with a hammer
to indent wax with a stamp
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.
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?