Indent

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Meaning of Indent

(Lat. in, and dens, tooth). To cut in the shape of teeth. Deeds of indenture were anciently written on the same parchment or paper as many times as there were parties to the instrument, the word chirographum being written between, and then the several copies cut apart in a zigzag or notched line (whence the name), part of the word chirographum being on either side of it, and each party kept a copy. The practice now is to cut the top or side of the deed in a waving or notched line. 2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 295. To bind by indentures; to apprentice; as. to indent a young man to a shoemaker Webster. In American Law. An Indented certificate issued by the government of the United States at the close of the Revolution, for the principal or interest of the public debt. Ramsay; Hamilton; Webster; Eliot, Funding System, 36; 6 McLean (U. S.) 178: Act April 30, 1790, Sess. 2, c. 9, § 14; Act March 3, 1825, Sess. 2, c. 65, § 17. The word is no longer in use in this sense.

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Etimology of Indent

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early 15c., indenten, endenten “to make notches; to give (something) a toothed or jagged appearance,” also “to make a legal indenture, make a written formal agreement or contract,” from Old French endenter “to notch or dent, give a serrated edge to” (12c.) and directly from Medieval Latin indentare “to furnish with teeth,” from in- “into, in, on, upon” (see in- (2)) + verb from Latin dens (genitive dentis) “tooth” (see tooth). An indented document was usually, if not always, written in two or more identical versions. Originally, these were written on a single sheet of parchment and then cut apart along a zigzag, or ‘indented’ line. Each party to the agreement retained one copy, which he could readily authenticate by matching its serrate edge with that of another copy. [Middle English Dictionary] The printing sense “insert white space to force text inward” is first attested 1670s. Related: Indented (late 14c.); indenting.


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