endue
pronunciation
How to pronounce endue in British English: UK [ɪn'dju:]
How to pronounce endue in American English: US [ɛnˈdu, -ˈdju]
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- Verb:
- give qualities or abilities to
Word Origin
- endue (v.)
- also indue, c. 1400, "invest (with) some gift, quality, or power" (usually passive), from Old French enduire, induire "lead, drive, initiate, indoctrinate" (12c.) and directly from Latin inducere "to lead" (see induce). Related: Endued.
Example
- 1. The saint be endue with power from god .
- 2. The course objective is to endue students with enterprise production and operation process flow and management skill .
- 3. I will cast off our desire which is god endue .
- 4. Governor bellingham , in a loose gown and easy cap - much as elderly gentlemen loved to endue themselves with , in their domestic privacy-walked foremost , and appeared to be showing off his estate , and expatiating on his projected improvements .
- 5. The composer organically combines classical genre with modern composition techniques in this work to endue it with unique characteristics .