INDUE

endow, indue, gift, empower, invest, endue

(verb) give qualities or abilities to

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

indue (third-person singular simple present indues, present participle induing, simple past and past participle indued)

Alternative form of endue

Anagrams

• Udine, nudie, undie

Source: Wiktionary


In*due", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indued; p. pr. & vb. n. Induing.] [Written also endue.] Etym: [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.]

1. To put on, as clothes; to draw on. The baron had indued a pair of jack boots. Sir W. Scott.

2. 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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