- a variation of endue.
indue
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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All honour that may be attributed unto any man by a wife, he hath it wholly and fully ... all dignities that she can indue him with are already given and granted.
From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various
And the fruits, of late commencing To indue their glowing tint, Richest beauty are enhancing As they catch his gentle glint.
From Verses of Feeling and Fancy by Wm. M. MacKeracher
Our party being at length complete, to the number of ten, we indue our cloaks, and, pioneered by the ward-beadle with his ponderous mace, we sally forth to feel the charitable pulse of several parishes.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852 by Robert Chambers
Let not self-love, wit, craft, and timorousness corrupt his mind, but indue him with fortitude, patience, steadfastness, tenderness, mortification .
From Bunyan Characters (1st Series) by Alexander Whyte
For its magic doth indue me With strength o'er all their graves.
From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein
And behold I send the promise of my Father upon you; but stay you in the city until you be indued with power from on high.
From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
In it, we are told, all the rulers and all the denizens of ocean are figured and indued with magic power to dwindle and dilate before the beholder’s eyes.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin
The chief features, however, in Birket Foster's paintings are the poetic feeling with which he indued them, and the care and felicity with which his compositions were selected.
From Birket Foster, R.W.S. Sixteen examples in colour of the artist's work by H. M. (Herbert Minton) Cundall
If, however, it float by chance toward the poles, it will be checked a little by the poles of the earth, and will at length by the influence of the earth be indued with verticity.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert
He would not have allowed the contaminating presence of such a man near his sons, even had he been indued with the needful learning for the task of instructor.
From The Secret Chamber at Chad by Evelyn Everett-Green
Most of the guests replacing their sandals, which they had put off in the banquet-room, and induing their cloaks, left the house on foot attended by their slaves.
From Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Hurriedly induing a portion of his clothing, he rushed down and across the yard, shouting to her as he ran, like a nurse as she runs up the stair to a screaming child.
From The Marquis of Lossie by George MacDonald
By this time Robert had conquered the difficulty of induing boots as hard as a thorough wetting and as thorough a drying could make them, and now stood prepared to go.
From Robert Falconer by George MacDonald
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