Verb

(en verb)

To hold up a claim emphatically.

(I am defending her; see a similar example in the context below for comparison.)

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To demand continually that something happen or be done.

To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).

* 1709 , Venturus Mandey, Synopsis Mathematica Universalis

Angles likewise which insist on the Diameter, are all Right Angles.

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.