- a variation of endue.
indue
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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She retired at once to the ladies' cabin to indue her poke-bonnet with coquelicot trimmings.
From Poison Island by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
And I shall thereupon Take rest, ere I be gone80 Once more on my adventure brave and new: Fearless and unperplexed, When I wage battle next, What weapons to select, what armor to indue.
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Myra Reynolds
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
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 Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) Burt
And I shall thereupon 80Take rest, ere I be gone Once more on my adventure brave and new: Fearless and unperplexed, When I wage battle next, What weapons to select, what armour to indue.
From Browning's Shorter Poems by Franklin T. (Franklin Thomas) Baker
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
But demaund we the opinion of King Salomon, a man indued with singuler gifts of God, rich and welthie of all things: who sought for treasure from the Iles.
From A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier by Mary Sidney Herbert
Despite her injunction against hurry, the girl had already indued the white brocade and stood before the mirror conning herself.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The boys were certainly an awkward lot, so the Colonel decided, and forthwith remembered his own first pair of white kid gloves and the horrible self-consciousness he had indued with them.
From Corporal Sam and Other Stories by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Slowly, very slowly, he divested himself of his clothes, and, piece by piece, indued himself in the old finery.
From The Mayor of Troy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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
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
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