Endue vs Entitle - What's the difference?
endue | entitle |
(obsolete) To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
To take on, to take the form of.
* 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron ,
To clothe (someone (with) something).
* 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
To invest (someone) (with) a given quality, property etc.; to endow.
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.11:
* 1663 ,
give a title to
dignify by an honorary designation.
give authority (to do something)
give rightful ownership
give a title to a book, film, play, etc.
As verbs the difference between endue and entitle
is that endue is (obsolete) to pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb while entitle is give a title to.endue
English
Alternative forms
* indue * indewVerb
(en-verb)- none but she it vewed, / Who well perceiued all, and all indewed .
- 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.
- 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.
- That the Sun, Moon, and Stars are living creatures, endued with soul and life, seems an innocent Error, and an harmless digression from truth [...].
- Thus was th' accomplish'd squire endued \ With gifts and knowledge per'lous shrewd.
