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Clothe vs Endued - What's the difference?

clothe | endued |

As verbs the difference between clothe and endued

is that clothe is to adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing while endued is (endue).

clothe

English

Verb

  • To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
    • to feed and clothe''' a family; to '''clothe oneself extravagantly
  • * Shakespeare
    • Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxiii. 21
    • Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
  • * Goldsmith
    • The naked every day he clad , / When he put on his clothes.
  • (figurative) To cover or invest, as if with a garment.
    • to clothe somebody with authority or power
  • * Watts
    • language in which they can clothe their thoughts
  • * J. Dyer
    • His sides are clothed with waving wood.
  • * Milton
    • words clothed in reason's garb

    endued

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (endue)

    • Anagrams

    * * *

    endue

    English

    Alternative forms

    * indue * indew

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
    • none but she it vewed, / Who well perceiued all, and all indewed .
  • To take on, to take the form of.
  • * 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron ,
    • My transport of the afternoon, and the matter of physical contrast, made me endue the tactile apparatus of another man, any man but me, and imagine the beauty of Zip in his caressing arms.
  • To clothe (someone (with) something).
  • * 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
    • Judaea greeted its monarch. He was to ascend to the immemorial sacring place of millennia of kings, there to be endued with the robe and crown of rule.
  • To invest (someone) (with) a given quality, property etc.; to endow.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.11:
    • That the Sun, Moon, and Stars are living creatures, endued with soul and life, seems an innocent Error, and an harmless digression from truth [...].
  • * 1663 ,
    • Thus was th' accomplish'd squire endued \ With gifts and knowledge per'lous shrewd.

    Derived terms

    * enduement