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From Middle English endamagen, from Old French endamagier.

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
    • 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 […].