indue
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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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 George Gissing
How has she sinned, devout and true, The noblest monarch's child, That she should garb of bark indue And journey to the wild?
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
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
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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
And I shall thereupon take 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 armor to indue.
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
Afterwards Araspas himselfe falleth in loue with the saide ladie, but she indued with greate chastitie, auoydeth his earnest sute.
From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by William Painter
O fear not, Madam, you'll find your account in Sir George Airy; it is impossible a Man of Sense shou'd use a Woman ill, indued with Beauty, Wit and Fortune.
From The Busie Body by Jess Byrd
He was no lesse indued with commendable gifts of mind, than with strength Edgar a fauorer of moonks. and force of bodie.
From Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England by Raphael Holinshed
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
Men and women, absorbed with one object, waited in holy concord, in happy symphony—waited on, day after day, earnestly, fervently, harmoniously waited until they were indued with the promised power from on high.
From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by C. (Charles) H. (Henry) Mackintosh
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
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
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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