Indue

Word INDUE
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Definitions and meanings of "Indue"

What do we mean by indue?

To put on, as a garment.

To clothe; invest.

To furnish; supply; endow.

To inure; accustom.

To put on, as clothes; to draw on. transitive verb

To clothe; to invest; hence, to endow; to furnish; to supply with moral or mental qualities. transitive verb

Alternative form of endue. verb

Give qualities or abilities to verb

To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb.

To take on, to take the form of.

To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something).

To invest (someone) with a given quality, property etc.; to endow.

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The word "indue" in example sentences

May indue vomiting in progressives, swelling of anger, and extended loss of rights. ❋ Unknown (2005)

"Therefore, indue course, the remaining exchange control measures will be steadily removed." ❋ Unknown (1996)

Half an hour from now, when I shall again and for ever re-indue that hated personality, I know how I shall sit shuddering and weeping in my chair, or continue, with the most strained and fear-struck ecstasy of listening, to pace up and down this room (my last earthly refuge) and give ear to every sound of menace. ❋ Unknown (1921)

So careful was he, so fearful of facing eternity and judgment -- if drown he must -- without them, that, although the time was short and the danger instant, and the man by this time a coward, he had stripped off oilskin coat and pea-jacket to indue them again and button them over his treasure. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

She retired at once to the ladies 'cabin to indue her poke-bonnet with coquelicot trimmings. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

The end was that Nurse Branscome hunted up a piece of coloured flannel, and Master Timothy that same evening was stripped to indue a pyjama suit. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

Half an hour from now, when I shall again and forever re-indue that hated personality, I know how I shall sit shuddering and weeping in my chair, or continue, with the most strained and fearstruck ecstasy of listening, to pace up and down this room (my last earthly refuge) and give ear to every sound of menace. ❋ Unknown (1886)

Praying that the Great Head of the Church may indue him with all needful graces and crown his labors with success. ❋ Unknown (1885)

At length the boy and girl go upstairs to be "got ready," which means that they indue other garments yet more uncomfortable than those they already wear. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

It is not my duty to indue facts and theories with affinity. ❋ Ambrose Bierce (1878)

I can, with steady nerve and resolute hand, remove the last habiliment, and without undignified precipitation reach for and indue the nocturnal garment, I admit, however, that on this occasion I gave way to a weak irresolution at the critical instant and shivered for some moments in constantly increasing demoralization, before I could make up my mind to the final change. ❋ Edward Bellamy (1874)

'Though, to be sure, if you had consented to indue -- _A propos_,' he broke off, 'and my trousers! ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

Let, then, youth enter into its heritage, and use and enjoy it; let it then pass into an approved manhood, "for aye removed from the developed brute; a God, though in the germ"; let it pass fearless and unperplexed as to what weapons to select, what armor to indue for the battle which awaits that approved manhood. ❋ Hiram Corson (1869)

Magnetic currents are known to act upon bodies in close proximity without the intervention of a spark, and to indue such bodies with magnetic force. ❋ Henry Raymond Rogers (1861)

As no entreaties could prevail on Lovel to indue the velvet night-cap and branched morning-gown of his host, Oldbuck, who pretended to a little knowledge of the medical art, insisted on his going to bed as soon as possible, and proposed to despatch a messenger (the indefatigable Caxon) to Fairport early in the morning, to procure him a change of clothes. ❋ Unknown (1845)

He now felt refreshed and invigorated, and began to indue his garments, which he found thrown on a heap beside the bed. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

I am minute in mentioning the regimentals, because, for a long time after the war, Sergeant Mike was accustomed to indue himself in this identical suit on Sundays, and strut about with the air of a commander-in-chief. ❋ Unknown (1832)

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