endue
/ɪnˈd(j)u/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Infinite ſhapes of creatures there [in the Garden of Eden] are bred, / And vncouth formes, vvhich none yet euer knevv, / […] / Some fitt for reaſonable ſovvles t’indew, / Some made for beaſts, ſome made for birds to vveare, […]"
- "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."
- "Could I outwear my present state of woe / With one brief winter, and indue i' the spring / Hues of fresh youth, and mightily outgrow / That wan dark coil of faded suffering— […]"
- "My transport of the afternoon, and the matter of physical contrast, made me endue the tactile apparatus of another man, any man but me, and imagine the beauty of Zip in his caressing arms."
- "Indu'd vvith Robes of various Hevv ſhe [Iris] flies, / And flying dravvs an Arch, (a ſegment of the Skies:) / Then leaves her bending Bovv, and from the ſteep / Deſcends to ſearch the ſilent Houſe of Sleep."
- "[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, […]"
Etymology
From both of the following: * Chiefly sense 1: Late Middle English induen (“to clothe (someone); to assume or take on (an appearance)”), from Latin induere, the present active infinitive of induō (“to put on (clothes, etc.); to assume (a part)”), from indu- (an archaic variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘in; within’)) + *uō (“to put on (clothes, etc.)”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ew- (“to put clothes or shoes on”)). * Chiefly sense 3 and sense 4: Late Middle English endeuen, enduen (“to endow; to induct or put (someone into office, etc.); (falconry) of a hawk: to pass food from the crop or gorge into the stomach”), from Old French enduire, induire (modern French enduire), from Latin indūcere, the present active infinitive of indūcō (“to bring or lead in; (by extension) to draw over, cover; (figurative) to bring into, establish, initiate; etc.”), from in- (see above) + dūcō (“to draw, pull; to guide, lead; etc.”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to draw, pull; to lead”)). Sense 2 is from a combination of the above. Doublet of induce.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *dewk-, induen, induere, *h₃ew-, endeuen, enduire
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪnˈd(j)u/
- British English: /ɪnˈdjuː/
Usage
Inflected Forms
endues (present, singular)
enduing (participle, present)
endued (participle, past)
endued (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
endued (first person, past)
enduest (archaic, present)
endued (past, second person)
enduedst (archaic, past)
endueth (archaic, present)
endued (past, singular)
Derived Forms
Phrases
re-endue