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Webster 1913 Edition

Indue

In-due′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Indued
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Induing
.]
[Written also
endue
.]
[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.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Indue

INDUE

,
Verb.
T.
indu'. [L. induo. This word coincides nearly in signification with endow, that is, to put on, to furnish. Dueo is evidently a contracted word.]
1.
To put on something; to invest; to clothe; as, to indue matter with forms, or man with intelligence.
2.
To furnish; to supply with; to endow.

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