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Definition of endues in English English dictionary
- third-person singular of endue
- endue
- To clothe; to endow or invest (with a thing)
Judaea greeted its monarch. He was to ascend to the immemorial sacring place of millennia of kings, there to be endued with the robe and crown of rule.
- endue
- To take on, to take the form of
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.
- endue
- To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb
none but she it vewed, / Who well perceiued all, and all indewed.
- endue
- to endow with some quality, gift, or grace, usually spiritual
- endue
- {v} to supply with graces to invest
- endue
- IMBUE, TRANSFUSE: "a mummy again endued with animation ― Mary W. Shelley"
- endue
- PROVIDE, ENDOW: "endued with the rights of a citizen"
- endue
- [Middle English induen; influenced by Latin induere to put on] : PUT ON, DON
- endue
- {f} furnish with some quality or ability; take on, assume; put on clothing, dress
- endue
- To invest
- endue
- An older spelling of Endow
- endue
- give qualities or abilities to