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endued

[en-doo, -dyoo] Origin

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; Middle English endewen to induct, initiate < Anglo-French, Old French enduire < Latin indūcere to lead in, cover, induce

un·en·dued, adjective
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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endue
c.1400, from O.Fr. enduire, from L. inducere "to lead" (see induce). Related: Endued.
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