endue

Etymology

From Old French enduire, partly from Latin indūcere (“lead in”), partly from en- + duire (from the same Latin root). Doublet of induce.

verb

1. (obsolete) To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb.
2. To take on, to take the form of.
   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. 1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron
3. To put on (a piece of clothing); 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.
4. To invest (someone) with a given quality, property etc.; to endow.
   But after dissension / Had ended, in France, and you were endued / With your former privilege, how did you show your gratitude? 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, part II