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Endued vs Imbued - What's the difference?

endued | imbued |

As verbs the difference between endued and imbued

is that endued is past tense of endue while imbued is past tense of imbue.

endued

English

Verb

(head)
  • (endue)

    • Anagrams

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    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

    imbued

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (imbue)

    • imbue

    English

    Verb

    (imbu)
  • (transitive): To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.
    • The shirt was imbued with his scent.
  • In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.
    • The entire text is imbued with the sense of melancholy and hopelessness.

    Usage notes

    * Imbue takes meaning from the word imbibe, which means "to absorb or to be filled with".