endue
verb (used with object)
to invest or endow with some gift, quality, or faculty.
had endued
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past perfectof endue.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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It seems as if Providence had endued this people with a kind of amphibious nature, as the sea is the only source from whence almost all their subsistence is derived.
The life with which he had endued these sheets of paper began to beckon imperiously.
From The Ragged Edge by Harold MacGrath
Nature had endued him with an inventive, penetrating genius, inclined to mathematical applications; he learned the trade of a joiner, for his own amusement.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente
He was amused, too, at the completeness with which the lion of Judah had endued himself with the skin of the British lion.
From Ghetto Comedies by Israel Zangwill
He had endued himself in somewhat seedy clothes, and had visited 37 Raven Street, Blackfriars, which he found to be merely a tenement house.
From The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Arthur Morrison
