About The Word Indue
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Indue
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What's The Definition Of Indue?
[v] give qualities or abilities to
Synonyms | Synonyms for Indue: empower | endow | endue | gift | invest Related Terms | Find terms related to Indue: Indue In Webster's Dictionary \In*due"\, v. 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. --Shak.
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