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Endue

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To provide with a quality or trait; endow: "A being whom I myself had formed, and endued with life, had met me at midnight among the precipices of an inaccesible mountain” ( Mary Shelley).

v. To put on (a piece of clothing).

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb.

v. To take on, to take the form of.

v. To clothe (someone with something).

v. To invest (someone) with a given quality, property etc.; to endow.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To invest.

v. An older spelling of endow.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To clothe; invest: same as indue.

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.

To digest: said especially of birds.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. give qualities or abilities to

Word Usage

"{o} "endue" Isa 44: 3; Joe 2: 28; Ac 2: 1-21; 1: 8"

Verb Form

endued endues

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

enable

Variant

endow

Hyponym

cover

Form

endued enduing enduement

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

invest indue clothe reinvest grace