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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Although it had shrunk into shallow insignificance,—with much beside,—a faint halo of the romance with which he had endued this early scene of his adventures still clung to the spot.
From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Elizabeth Ashe
But no man ever quite forsakes his dream-woman; and he had endued a princess with all the shining attributes of an angel, when, had he known it, she was only angelic.
From The Goose Girl 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
But all these so eminent vertues, and so sublimed in him, were but as foyles to those excellent gifts wherewith God had endued his intellectuals.
From Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles by Various
The life with which he had endued these sheets of paper began to beckon imperiously.
From The Ragged Edge by Harold MacGrath
