endue
Americanverb (used with object)
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endues,
present (3rd person singular)
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endued,
past participle, past
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enduing
present participle
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to invest or endow with some gift, quality, or faculty.
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to put on; assume.
Hamlet endued the character of a madman.
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to clothe.
verb
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(usually foll by with) to invest or provide, as with some quality or trait
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rare (foll by with) to clothe or dress (in)
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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enduesimple
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enduessimple
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have enduedperfect
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has enduedperfect
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am enduingprogressive
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are enduingprogressive
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is enduingprogressive
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have been enduingperfect progressive
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has been enduingperfect progressive
Past
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enduedsimple
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had enduedperfect
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was enduingprogressive
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were enduingprogressive
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had been enduingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of endue
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English endewen “to induct, initiate,” from Anglo-French, Old French enduire, from Latin indūcere “to lead in, cover, induce”; see induce
Explanation
You probably hope that your years of ballet classes will endue you with the ability to dance like Baryshnikov. In other words, you're dreaming that all of those arabesques and pirouettes will provide you with the dancing talent you wish for. Endue is a fancy literary term that shows up most often in formal writing, but you could impress someone by using it to mean "endow," "invest," or "empower." Less often, endue is used to mean "to put clothes on," or "dress," which makes sense when you know that endue comes from the Latin word induere, or "to put on."
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It is “the eyes alone that stamp the face with the outward symbol of animation and vitality,” and which endue it with the visible “sanctity of reason.”
From The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources by Anonymous
The Almighty will no doubt grant you the help of His grace, will invest you with the tokens of His might, and will endue your souls with the sustaining power of His Holy Spirit.”
From Messages to America by Shoghi Effendi
Each grace and gift of form and mind Adorns that prince of human kind; And virtues like his own endue His brother ever firm and true.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
But he who can raise a cancerous corpse from an operating table, and endue it with life and health upon the instant, can do that and more.
From A Second Coming by Richard Marsh
“The Almighty will no doubt grant you the help of His grace, will invest you with the tokens of His might, and will endue your souls with the sustaining power of His holy Spirit.”
From The Advent of Divine Justice by Shoghi Effendi
During gestation the muscular coat of the uterus is passive; but when that function has been perfected, Nature endues it with energy to expel the fœtus.
From The Dog by Dinks
The spirit of Christ, His teachings, His character, His example, are the centre of attraction which holds His church together and endues it with the power which shall yet subdue the world.
From Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World by John Clark Ridpath
A handkerchief, a glove, a flower,—with a breath she endues them with immortal souls.
From Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance by Richard Le Gallienne
The woman in man endues him with intuitive apprehension of the Woman-nature; of its needs and modes, its disabilities, its sufferings and aspirations.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy
The article in question endues the Prize Court in certain points with a law-making power which is simply a delegated power.
From The Future of International Law by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim
The Emperor is the father of Flanders and Brabant, and like a father is endued with long-suffering gentleness, patience, and compassion.”
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
“The natives,” he says, “looked upon serpents as endued with divine spirits.”
From Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World by Anonymous
It may also be inclosed in a Piece of Whalebone, split into four Sticks at one End, and which, being endued with a considerable Spring, contracts upon the Sponge.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot
A man less loyal than Freeling or endued with less generous instincts might have felt a twinge of satisfaction at this result of interference with what he considered his own domain.
From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Herbert Joyce
He showed them his hands and his feet, told them to handle him, and ate before them; directed them to tarry at Jerusalem till they were endued with power from on high.
From The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules by Lionel Lisle
Yet, as Politico noted a few years ago, his presidency “left an enduing influence. It’s impossible to imagine an alternate reality in which the map of the United States stood frozen in 1844.”
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2024
Iowa State: The Cyclones weren’t quite ready for the big stage, enduing one of the poorest shooting performances in recent memory.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
All through the early spring Abner toiled with the might of a hopeful heart—love lightening every task and enduing him with the strength of two.
From Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Mary Addams Bayne
This bloom of love enduing St. Francis's words would be an admirable criterion of the authenticity of those opuscules which tradition attributes to him; but the work of testing is neither long nor difficult.
From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Louise Seymour Houghton
When spring comes round, he first exhibits his consciousness of his coming charge by suddenly enduing himself in a glowing coat of many colors and of iridescent brilliancy.
From A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. by David Starr Jordan
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