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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.
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.