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endue | grant |

As a verb endue

is (obsolete) to pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb.

As a proper noun grant is

and a scottish clan name, from a nickname meaning "large".

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

    grant

    English

    Alternative forms

    * graunt (obsolete)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
  • To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
  • * 1668 July 3, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:
    • He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue'' had granted a general Di?charge to ''Adam Mu?het'', who was his Conjunct, and ''correus debendi'', after the alleadged Service, which Di?charged ''Mu?het'', and con?equently ''Houstoun his Partner.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
    • , author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Money just makes the rich suffer , volume=188, issue=23, page=19 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]}}
  • To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
  • * , Preface ("The Infidel Half Century"), section "In Quest of the First Cause":
    • The universe exists, said the father: somebody must have made it. If that somebody exists, said I, somebody must have made him. I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian.
  • To assent; to consent.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
  • The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
  • The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
    • I got a grant from the government to study archeology in Egypt.''
  • (legal) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, an appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.
  • (informal) An application for a grant (monetary boon to aid research or the like).