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en⋅due

[en-doo, -dyoo]
–verb (used with object), -dued, -du⋅ing.
1. to invest or endow with some gift, quality, or faculty.
2. to put on; assume: Hamlet endued the character of a madman.
3. to clothe.
Also, indue.


Origin:
1350–1400; ME endewen to induct, initiate < AF, OF enduire < L indūcere to lead in, cover, induce
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en·due   (ěn-dōō', -dyōō')   
tr.v.   en·dued also in·dued, en·du·ing also in·du·ing, en·dues also in·dues
  1. To provide with a quality or trait; endow: "A being whom I myself had formed, and endued with life, had met me at midnight among the precipices of an inaccesible mountain" (Mary Shelley).

  2. To put on (a piece of clothing).


[Middle English enduen, from Old French enduire, to lead in, induct (influenced by Middle English endowen, to endow), from Latin indūcere; see induce. Sense 2, Middle English induen, to clothe, from Latin induere, to put on; see eu- in Indo-European roots.]
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