Verb

(head)

(endure)

Verb

To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships.

The singer's popularity endured for decades.

To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.

To last.

Our love will endure forever.

* Bible, Job viii. 15

He shall hold it [his house] fast, but it shall not endure .

To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.

* Bible, Ezekiel xxii. 14

Can thine heart endure , or can thine hands be strong in the days that I shall deal with thee?

To suffer patiently.

He endured years of pain.

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(obsolete) To indurate.

Verb

(head)

(endue)

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.