indue
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Example Sentences
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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 Chambers, Robert
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
To you— That's another point of view, One you may as well indue With some alarm.
From The Man Against the Sky by Robinson, Edwin Arlington
He now felt refreshed and invigorated, and began to indue his garments, which he found thrown on a heap beside the bed.
From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
The end was that Nurse Branscome hunted up a piece of coloured flannel, and Master Timothy that same evening was stripped to indue a pyjama suit.
From Brother Copas by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
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