Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put on, as a garment.
- To clothe; invest.
- To furnish; supply; endow.
- To inure; accustom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To put on, as clothes; to draw on.
- transitive verb To clothe; to invest; hence, to endow; to furnish; to supply with moral or mental qualities.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Alternative form of
endue .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give qualities or abilities to
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Examples
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May indue vomiting in progressives, swelling of anger, and extended loss of rights.
Think Progress » Bush Refuses to Influence DeLay Trial, Then Declares DeLay’s Innocence 2005
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"Therefore, indue course, the remaining exchange control measures will be steadily removed."
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Half an hour from now, when I shall again and for ever re-indue that hated personality, I know how I shall sit shuddering and weeping in my chair, or continue, with the most strained and fear-struck ecstasy of listening, to pace up and down this room (my last earthly refuge) and give ear to every sound of menace.
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So careful was he, so fearful of facing eternity and judgment -- if drown he must -- without them, that, although the time was short and the danger instant, and the man by this time a coward, he had stripped off oilskin coat and pea-jacket to indue them again and button them over his treasure.
Shining Ferry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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She retired at once to the ladies 'cabin to indue her poke-bonnet with coquelicot trimmings.
Poison Island Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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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.
Brother Copas Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Half an hour from now, when I shall again and forever re-indue that hated personality, I know how I shall sit shuddering and weeping in my chair, or continue, with the most strained and fearstruck ecstasy of listening, to pace up and down this room (my last earthly refuge) and give ear to every sound of menace.
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Praying that the Great Head of the Church may indue him with all needful graces and crown his labors with success.
Life and History of the Rev. Elijah P. Marrs, First Pastor of Beargrass Baptist Church, and Author 1885
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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.
The Emancipated George Gissing 1880
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It is not my duty to indue facts and theories with affinity.
Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Ambrose Bierce 1878
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