Crossword clues for endue
endue
- Invest (something) with a quality or ability
- Top layer expected to provide
- Endow, as with a quality
- Provide with a trait
- Invest with a quality
- Provide with a characteristic
- Provide with some trait
- Provide with a gift
- Invest (with)
- Invest with power
- Invest with a trait
- Endow with a quality
- Endow with a gift
- Take on, as a quality
- Provide, as with power
- Provide with an ability
- Provide as with a quality,
- Invest with some trait
- Give qualities to
- Embody with
- Provide (with)
- Provide, as with some quality
- Provide, as with a quality
- Invest, as with a quality
- Transfuse
- Provide with a quality
- Provide, as with talents
- Clothe
- Supply (with)
- Provide some quality
- Put on
- Imbue
- Supply; clothe
- Assume, as a role
- Endow (with a quality)
- Supply nurse with what's owed
- Provide with support to eliminate resistance
- Provide space as required
- Provide material for Beethoven duet
- Invest in experience without resistance
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indue \In*due"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indued; p. pr. & vb. n. Induing.] [Written also endue.] [L. induere to put on, clothe, fr. OL. indu (fr. in- in) + a root seen also in L. exuere to put off, divest, exuviae the skin of an animal, slough, induviae clothes. Cf. Endue to invest.]
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To put on, as clothes; to draw on.
The baron had indued a pair of jack boots.
--Sir W. Scott. -
To clothe; to invest; hence, to endow; to furnish; to supply with moral or mental qualities.
Indu'd with robes of various hue she flies.
--Dryden.Indued with intellectual sense and souls.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also indue, c.1400, "invest (with) some gift, quality, or power" (usually passive), from Old French enduire, induire "lead, drive, initiate, indoctrinate" (12c.) and directly from Latin inducere "to lead" (see induce). Related: Endued.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context obsolete English) To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. 2 To take on, to take the form of. 3 To clothe (someone (term: with) something). 4 To invest (someone) (term: with) a given quality, property etc.; to endow.
WordNet
Usage examples of "endue".
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE All blessings at their goodliest will grace The advent of this New Messiah, sire, Of fairer prospects than the former one, Whose coming at so apt an hour endues The widening glory of your high exploits With permanence, and flings the dimness far That cloaked the future of our chronicle!
Camoena, who teaches to sing: let him be both the god Consus for granting counsel, and the goddess Sentia for inspiring sentences: let him be the goddess Juventas, who, after the robe of boyhood is laid aside, takes charge of the beginning of the youthful age: let him be Fortuna barbata, who endues adults with a beard, whom they have not chosen to honor.
So that England for these commodities was never better furnished, neither any nation under their clime more plentifully endued with these and other blessings from the most high God, who grant us grace withal to use the same to his honour and glory!
All which benefits we first refer to the grace of goodness of God, and next of all unto the bounty of our soil, which he hath endued with so notable and commodious fruitfulness.
He seemed born anew, and virtue, more potent than Medean alchemy, endued him with health and strength.
Hence it is, that those emperors who neither by art nor nature are endued with that address and reputation as is necessary for the restraining both of the one and the other, do always miscarry.
Marcus, indeed, lived and died in great honour, because he came to the empire by way of inheritance and succession, without being beholden either to soldiers or people, and being afterwards endued with many good qualities which recommended him, and made him venerable among them, he kept them both in such order whilst he lived, and held them so strictly to their bounds, that he was never either hated or despised.
But his son Antoninus was an excellent person likewise endued with transcendent parts, which rendered him admirable to the people and grateful to the soldiers.
It is therefore manifest, that Christ hath not left to his Ministers in this world, unlesse they be also endued with Civill Authority, any authority to Command other men.
The clay that returns to the dust from which it sprung, the tenement that was lately endued with volition and life, the frame that exhibited a perfection of mechanism, deriding all human power, and confounding all human imagination, now an inanimate mass, rapidly decomposing, and soon to become a heap of corruption.
Huram said moreover, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
It is indissoluble in water, and endued with the wonderful property of remaining unconsumed in the fire.
No man, I am sure, will deny but that it would be an admirable thing and highly to be commended to have a prince endued with all the good qualities aforesaid.
It is evident, that with the qualifications, occurs at the same time the consciousness of being endued with them.
But the works of God are endued with motion, breath, the use of the appearances of things, judgment.