ENDUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does endue mean? 

• ENDUE (verb)
  The verb ENDUE has 1 sense:

1. give qualities or abilities to

  Familiarity information: ENDUE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENDUE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they endue    ... he / she / it endues   
Past simple: endued   
Past participle: endued   
-ing form: enduing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give qualities or abilities to

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

empower; endow; endue; gift; indue; invest

Hypernyms (to "endue" is one way to...):

enable (render capable or able for some task)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "endue"):

cover (invest with a large or excessive amount of something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody with something

 Context examples 

A being whom I myself had formed, and endued with life, had met me at midnight among the precipices of an inaccessible mountain.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I was amazed to see such actions and behaviour in brute beasts; and concluded with myself, that if the inhabitants of this country were endued with a proportionable degree of reason, they must needs be the wisest people upon earth.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He said, if it were possible there could be any country where Yahoos alone were endued with reason, they certainly must be the governing animal; because reason in time will always prevail against brutal strength.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

For, with respect to that part of the earth over which the monarch presides, the stone is endued at one of its sides with an attractive power, and at the other with a repulsive.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was necessary that I should return without delay to Geneva, there to watch over the lives of those I so fondly loved and to lie in wait for the murderer, that if any chance led me to the place of his concealment, or if he dared again to blast me by his presence, I might, with unfailing aim, put an end to the existence of the monstrous image which I had endued with the mockery of a soul still more monstrous.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)