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- Dictionaryendue/ɪnˈdjuː/
verb
- 1. endow or provide with a quality or ability: literary "our sight would be endued with a far greater sharpness"
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The meaning of ENDUE is provide, endow. How to use endue in a sentence.
Endue is a fancy literary term that shows up most often in formal writing, but you could impress someone by using it to mean "endow," "invest," or "empower." Less often, endue is used to mean "to put clothes on," or "dress," which makes sense when you know that endue comes from the Latin word induere , or "to put on."
2 meanings: 1. to invest or provide, as with some quality or trait 2. rare to clothe or dress (in).... Click for more definitions.
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). 2. To put on (a piece of clothing).
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What does the verb endue mean? There are 17 meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb endue, 13 of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. endue has developed meanings and uses in subjects including. OED is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve definitions.
Endue definition: to invest or endow with some gift, quality, or faculty.. See examples of ENDUE used in a sentence.
en•due (en do̅o̅′, -dyo̅o̅′ ), v.t., -dued, -du•ing. to invest or endow with some gift, quality, or faculty. assume: Hamlet endued the character of a madman. to clothe. Also, indue. No titles with the word (s) "endue". Visit the English Only Forum. Help WordReference: Ask in the forums yourself.
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.
