indue
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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For its magic doth indue me With strength o'er all their graves.
From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein
"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 Sir Henry Jones
Magnetic currents are known to act upon bodies in close proximity without the intervention of a spark, and to indue such bodies with magnetic force.
From New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces by Henry Raymond Rogers
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
Then shall Alfadur make his realm anew, And Gods and men with purer life indue.
From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
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
He was fond of Hetty in a brotherly fashion, but as he had never supposed her to be indued with any intellect worth mentioning, her occasional flashes of penetration were almost disconcerting.
From Delilah of the Snows by Harold Bindloss
Mayor-choosing Day came round, and Dr. Hansombody, elected by the unanimous vote of his fellow-councillors, attained to one of the twin summits of his ambition and was indued as Chief Magistrate with robe and chain.
From The Mayor of Troy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Some wore long and ungainly deer-skin pantaloons and moccasins of the same material; and two or three were indued with coats of coarse homespun, awkwardly garnished with the trimmings of a British uniform.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
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
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
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
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