indue
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Example Sentences
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An armed Loadstone does not indue an excited piece of Iron with greater vigour than an unarmed.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William
At length the boy and girl go upstairs to be "got ready," which means that they indue other garments yet more uncomfortable than those they already wear.
From The Emancipated by Gissing, George
And I shall thereupon Take rest, ere I be gone Once more on my adventure brave and new: Fearless and unperplex'd, When I wage battle next, What weapons to select, what armour to indue.
From Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library by Burt, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth)
She retired at once to the ladies' cabin to indue her poke-bonnet with coquelicot trimmings.
From Poison Island by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
"The future I may face now I have proved the past;" and, in view of it, Browning is "Fearless and unperplexed When I wage battle next, What weapons to select, what armour to indue."
From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir
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