endue

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To clothe; to endow or invest (with a thing)

Judaea greeted its monarch. He was to ascend to the immemorial sacring place of millennia of kings, there to be endued with the robe and crown of rule.

To take on, to take the form of

My transport of the afternoon, and the matter of physical contrast, made me endue the tactile apparatus of another man, any man but me, and imagine the beauty of Zip in his caressing arms.

To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb

none but she it vewed, / Who well perceiued all, and all indewed.

to endow with some quality, gift, or grace, usually spiritual
{v} to supply with graces to invest
IMBUE, TRANSFUSE: "a mummy again endued with animation ― Mary W. Shelley"
PROVIDE, ENDOW: "endued with the rights of a citizen"
[Middle English induen; influenced by Latin induere to put on] : PUT ON, DON
{f} furnish with some quality or ability; take on, assume; put on clothing, dress
To invest
An older spelling of Endow
give qualities or abilities to
Enduing
enduement
To endue
due
endued
past of endue
endues
third-person singular of endue
enduing
present participle of endue
indue
To clothe; to invest; hence, to endow; to furnish; to supply with moral or mental qualities
indue
To put on, as clothes; to draw on
indue
give qualities or abilities to
indue
{f} endue, endow, furnish with some quality or ability; clothe, dress, put on clothing
endue

    Hyphenation

    en·due

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    [ in-'dü, -'dyü, en- ] (transitive verb.) 15th century. From Old French enduire, partly from Latin indūcere (“lead in”), partly from en- + duire.
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