Dictionary entry

Indue

Webster's Dictionary 1913

In‐due″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Indued (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Induing.] [Written also endue.] [L. induere to put on, clothe, fr. OL. indu (fr. in- in) + a root seen also in L. exuere to put off, divest, exuviae the skin of an animal, slough, induviae clothes. Cf. Endue to invest.]

1. To put on, as clothes; to draw on.

The baron had indued a pair of jack boots. Sir W. Scott.

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

Indu'd with robes of various hue she flies. Dryden.

Indued with intellectual sense and souls. Shak.