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Endues vs Ensues - What's the difference?

endues | ensues |

As verbs the difference between endues and ensues

is that endues is third-person singular of endue while ensues is third-person singular of ensue.

endues

English

Verb

(head)
  • (endue)

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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

    ensues

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (ensue)

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    ensue

    English

    Verb

    (ensu)
  • (obsolete) To follow (a leader, inclination etc.).
  • * 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
    • to ripenesse of mans state they grew: / Then shewing forth signes of their fathers blood, / They loued armes, and knighthood did ensew , / Seeking aduentures [...].
  • * Golding
    • To ensue his example in doing the like mischief.
  • *1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.11:
  • *:Oh how many changes are like to ensue this reformation!
    • Give three freshmen six bottles of wine, and hilarity will ensue .

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