endue

verb14

1. •
   (literary) Followed by with: to invest (someone or something) with a certain power, quality, etc.

   • [L]earning endueth mens mindes vvith a true sence of the frailtie of their persons, the casualtie of their fortunes, and the dignitie of their soule and vocation; […] — 1605
2. •
   Of a person or thing: to take on (a different form); to adopt, to assume.

   • Pallas [Athena], forth-vvith, an old-vviues shape indues; / Her hair all vvhite; her lims, appearing vveake, / A staffe supports: vvho thus began to speake. — 1626
3. •
   (no longer used) To supply (someone) with a thing.

   • Some reasons of this double Coronation / I haue possest you vvithm, and thinke them strong, / And more, more strong, then lesser is my feare / I shall indue you vvith: […] — 1596
4. •
   (no longer used) Synonym of endow (“to invest (a person, group of people, or institution) with property”).

   • And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry: Now will my husband dwel with me, because I haue borne him sixe sonnes: and shee called his name Zebulun. — 1611
5. •
   (no longer used, rare) Synonym of bestow (“to impart (something) gratuitously; to grant”).
6. •
   (figurative, no longer used) To take on; to absorb.

   • He did her seruice devvtifull, and sevvd / At hand vvith humble pride, and pleasing guile, / So closely yet, that none but she it vevved, / VVho vvell perceiued all, and all indevvd. — 1590
7. •
   (literary, no longer used) To put on (a piece of clothing, etc.); to wear; also (followed by with), to clothe (someone) with something.

   • [T]he Baron, with the help of Mr Saunderson, had indued a pair of jack[-]boots of large dimension, and now invited our hero to follow him as he stalked clattering down the ample staircase, […] — 1814
8. •
   (no longer used, rare) To put (something) on top of a thing; to cover, to overlay.
9. •
   (no longer used) Of a quality, etc.: to be inherent in (something).

   • Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth, / That I to manhood am arriv'd so near, / And invvard ripenes doth much less appear / That som more timely-happy spirits indu'th. — 1646
10. •
    (no longer used) To raise or rear (someone); to bring up; also, to educate or instruct (someone).
11. •
    (no longer used, rare) To bring (something) to a certain condition.

    • [L]et our finger ake, / And it endues our other healthfull members, / Euen to that sence of paine; […] — 1603
12. •
    (no longer used) Of a hawk: originally, to pass (food in the crop or gizzard) into the stomach; later, to digest (food).

    • Your gorge not endewed / Without a capon stewed — 1521
13. •
    (no longer used) Of a person or animal: to digest (food).

    • Her mete was very crude, / She had not wel endude; […] — 1503
14. •
    (no longer used, rare) Of food: to be digested.