indue

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INDUE, verb transitive indu'. [Latin induo. This word coincides nearly in signification with endow, that is, to put on, to furnish. Dueo is evidently a contracted word.] 1. To put on something; to invest; to clothe; as, to indue matter with forms, or man with intelligence. 2. To furnish; to supply with; to endow.
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