Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To provide with a quality or trait; endow.
- transitive verb To put on (a piece of clothing).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To clothe; invest: same as
indue . - To digest: said especially of birds.
- To furnish with dower: same as
endow - To furnish with a permanent fund: same as
endow , 2. - To invest with some gift, quality, or faculty: used especially of moral or spiritual gifts, and thus partially differentiated from
endow , 3. - Synonyms Endue, Endow. Endue is used of moral and spiritual qualities, viewed as given rather than acquired; endow, of the body, external things, and mental gifts. (See
acquirement .) An institution or a professorship is richly or fully endowed; a person is endowed with beauty or intellect; he is endued with virtue or piety.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To invest.
- transitive verb An older spelling of
endow .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To pass food into the
stomach ; todigest ; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. - verb To
take on , to take theform of. - verb To
clothe (someonewith something). - verb To
invest (someone)with a given quality, property etc.; toendow .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give qualities or abilities to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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{o} "endue" Isa 44: 3; Joe 2: 28; Ac 2: 1-21; 1: 8
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I am not a Hillary fan, but pleeeeeze ... she has had to endue a lot being married to Billy-boy Clinton.
Campaigning in Kentucky, Clinton hears sermon on infidelity 2008
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That it may please thee to give us true repentance; toforgive us all our sins, negligences, and ignorances; and to endue us with the grace of thy Holy Spirit to amend our lives according to thy holy Word
Archive 2009-02-01 bls 2009
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That it may please thee to give us true repentance; toforgive us all our sins, negligences, and ignorances; and to endue us with the grace of thy Holy Spirit to amend our lives according to thy holy Word
The Great Litany bls 2009
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Come, let us humble ourselves before Him and beseech Him: haply He shall grant us His succour and endue us with His grace, extolled and exalted be
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‘Hail and welcome who comest with grace to endue.’
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Gene Hackman plays a foreign Legion Major haunted by memories of World War I, who oversees a archaeological dig only for a battle to endue when Arab leader Ian Holm intervenes.
This Week’s Essential Movies for Free T.V Guide | Obsessed With Film 2007
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Almighty and everlasting God, who for the defense of the honor of holy images didst endue thy blessed Saint John with heavenly learning and wondrous strength of spirit: grant unto us, we pray thee, that by his intercession and example, we may so honor the images of thy saints, that we may follow them in all true godliness, and feel the effectual succor of their advocacy; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Archive 2006-12-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2006
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Almighty and everlasting God, who for the defense of the honor of holy images didst endue thy blessed Saint John with heavenly learning and wondrous strength of spirit: grant unto us, we pray thee, that by his intercession and example, we may so honor the images of thy saints, that we may follow them in all true godliness, and feel the effectual succor of their advocacy; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Homily for the Feast of St John Damascene Fr Timothy Matkin 2006
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Support them in the day of battle, and in the time of peace keep them safe from all evil; endue them with courage and loyalty; and grant that in all things they may serve without reproach; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
12/01/2003 - 01/01/2004 John 2003
michaelt42 commented on the word endue
From a prayer that I heard around: it's sensible and realistic: "ENDUE THY MINISTERS WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS AND MAKE THY CHOSEN PEOPLE JOYFUL." Fits all faiths.
April 9, 2012
MaryW commented on the word endue
A. A. Milne, The Holiday Round (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1929)December 26, 2015