indue
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
In·due′ transitive verb [past tense & past participle Indued; present participle & verbal noun Induing.] [Written also endue.]
Origin: 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 Walter 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.— John Dryden
Indued with intellectual sense and souls.— William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54