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Enduer vs Endue - What's the difference?

enduer | endue |

As verbs the difference between enduer and endue

is that enduer is obsolete form of endure while endue is to pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb.

enduer

English

Verb

(en verb)

    • 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