endue

verb

1. (also, figuratively, transitive)Senses relating to covering or putting on.

   “Infinite ſhapes of creatures there [in the Garden of Eden] are bred, / And vncouth formes, vvhich none yet euer knevv, / […] / Some fitt for reaſonable ſovvles t’indew, / Some made for beaſts, ſome made for birds to vveare, […]”

   “Pallas [Athena], forth-vvith, an old-vviues ſhape indues; / Her hair all vvhite; her lims, appearing vveake, / A ſtaffe ſupports: vvho thus began to ſpeake.”

   “Could I outwear my present state of woe / With one brief winter, and indue i' the spring / Hues of fresh youth, and mightily outgrow / That wan dark coil of faded suffering— […]”

   “My transport of the afternoon, and the matter of physical contrast, made me endue the tactile apparatus of another man, any man but me, and imagine the beauty of Zip in his caressing arms.”

2. (also, archaic, figuratively, literary, transitive)Senses relating to covering or putting on.

   “Indu'd vvith Robes of various Hevv ſhe [Iris] flies, / And flying dravvs an Arch, (a ſegment of the Skies:) / Then leaves her bending Bovv, and from the ſteep / Deſcends to ſearch the ſilent Houſe of Sleep.”

   “[T]he Baron, with the help of Mr Saunderson, had indued a pair of jack[-]boots of large dimension, and now invited our hero to follow him as he stalked clattering down the ample staircase, […]”

   “But before the chiefs and captains rode to their several posts, they assembled around William, whom Fitzosborne had called betimes, and who had not yet endued his heavy mail, that all men might see suspended from his throat certain relics chosen out of those on which Harold had pledged his fatal oath.”

   “Governor Bellingham, in a loose gown and easy cap,—such as elderly gentlemen loved to indue themselves with, in their domestic privacy,—walked foremost, and appeared to be showing off his estate, and expatiating on his projected improvements.”

   “[…] John Fry's sad-coloured Sunday hat was indued with a plume of marish-weed.”

3. (obsolete, rare, transitive)Senses relating to covering or putting on.

   “[The altar in St. Peter's Basilica] of St. Veronica made by Fra[ncesco] Mochi, has over it in the Reliquary, where they shew'd us the miraculous Sudarium indued wᵗʰ the picture of oʳ Saviour [Jesus]'s face, […]”

4. (literary, transitive)Senses relating to giving some quality or thing.

   “[L]earning endueth mens mindes vvith a true ſence of the frailtie of their perſons, the caſualtie of their fortunes, and the dignitie of their ſoule and vocation; […]”

   “And behold, I [Jesus] ſend the promiſe of my Father vpon you: but tarie ye in the citie of Hieruſalem, vntill ye be indued with power from on high.”

   “VVhen I called upon thee, thou heardeſt me: and enduedſt my ſoul vvith much ſtrength.”

   “That the Sun, Moone, and Stars are living creatures, endued vvith ſoule and life, ſeemes an innocent error, and a harmeleſſe digreſſion from truth; […]”

   “Some aſcribe to the ſanctity of this Ioſeph [of Arimathea], the yearly budding of the Havv-thorn near Glaſſenbury, on Chriſtmas day, no leſſe then an annual Miracle. […] Hovvever, there is no neceſſity, that this ſhould be imputed to the Holineſs of Arimathean Ioſeph. For there is (as is credibly ſaid) an Oake in Nevv-Foreſt, nigh Lindhurſt, in Hantſhire, vvhich is indued vvith the ſame quality, putting forth leaves about the ſame time; […]”

5. (obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to giving some quality or thing.

   “Perhaps my ſemblance might deceive the truth, / That I to manhood am arriv'd ſo near, / And invvard ripenes doth much leſs appear / That ſom more timely-happy ſpirits indu'th.”

   “Lion vvhom the footſteps of the fox purſue, / VVhoſe ſouls deceit and vanity endue.”

6. (obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to giving some quality or thing.

   “Some reaſons of this double Coronation / I haue poſſeſt you vvithm, and thinke them ſtrong, / And more, more ſtrong, then leſſer is my feare / I ſhall indue you vvith: […]”

   “[T]he Tribunes endue you vvith the Peoples Voyce, […]”

7. (obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to giving some quality or thing.

   “[H]e [Henry V] would be content to take in mariage the Lady Katheryn [Catherine of Valois] daughter vnto the French king [Charles VI of France], and to endue her with all the Duchye and countryes before reherſed.”

   “And Leah ſaid, God hath endued me with a good dowry: Now will my huſband dwel with me, because I haue borne him ſixe ſonnes: and ſhee called his name Zebulun.”

8. (obsolete, rare, transitive)Senses relating to giving some quality or thing.
9. (obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to directing or leading.
10. (obsolete, rare, transitive)Senses relating to directing or leading.

    “[L]et our finger ake, / And it endues our other healthfull members, / Euen to that ſence of paine; […]”

11. (obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to taking in.

    “Your gorge not endewed / Without a capon stewed”

    “I Mute [defecate] as a hauke dothe whan ſhe hath endued her gorge.”

    “Cattes fleſhe is vnholeſome, and harde to be indewed, and breedeth perillous wormes, and ſtoppeth a Hawke in the gorge, and marreth hir winde.”

12. (broadly, obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to taking in.

    “Her mete was very crude, / She had not wel endude; […]”

    “All, (not only we) wait upon God; and he gives them their meat, though not our meat, (the word and the sacraments) yet their meat, such as they are able to digest and endue.”

    “The Birds were large, fine, and neat accordingly; looking as like the Men in my Country, as one Pea do's like another; for they eat and drank like Men, muted like Men, endued or digested like Men, farted like Men, but stunk like Devils, […]”

13. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive)Senses relating to taking in.

    “He did her ſeruice devvtifull, and ſevvd / At hand vvith humble pride, and pleaſing guile, / So cloſely yet, that none but ſhe it vevved, / VVho vvell perceiued all, and all indevvd.”

14. (intransitive, obsolete, rare)Senses relating to taking in.