indue
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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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
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 Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
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
For its magic doth indue me With strength o'er all their graves.
From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein
All honour that may be attributed unto any man by a wife, he hath it wholly and fully ... all dignities that she can indue him with are already given and granted.
From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various
But fortunes based upon land in the cities were indued with a mathematical certainty and a perpetuity.
From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Myers Gustavus
He then indued a cumbrous back-piece to match, buckled the shoulder-straps without assistance, and girded the whole tightly together with an embroidered belt round his waist.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
Cato the sage Peere of Rome, indued with like seueritée, did fauour that lawe and highlie extolled it.
From A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde by Richard Rainolde
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
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
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
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
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