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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. give qualities or abilities to;
[syn: endow, indue, gift, empower, invest, endue]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Indue \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.] [1913 Webster] 1. To put on, as clothes; to draw on. [1913 Webster] The baron had indued a pair of jack boots. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 2. To clothe; to invest; hence, to endow; to furnish; to supply with moral or mental qualities. [1913 Webster] Indu'd with robes of various hue she flies. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Indued with intellectual sense and souls. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

indue v 1: give qualities or abilities to [syn: endow, indue, gift, empower, invest, endue]