endew

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A form of endue — Of a person or thing: to take on (a different form); to adopt, to assume.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

verbendew (third-person singular simple present endews, present participle endewing, simple past and past participle endewed)

present singular third person endews · participle present endewing · participle past endewed · past endewed · first person past singular endewed · archaic present second person singular endewest · past second person singular endewed · archaic past second person singular endewedst · present singular third person endews · archaic present singular third person endeweth · past singular third person endewed · past plural endewed · past subjunctive endewed · participle present endewing · participle past endewed

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of endue.

    Your gorge not endewed / Without a capon stewed

    1521–1522, John Skelton, “Here after Followeth a Litel Boke Called Colyn Cloute, […]”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Poetical Works of John Skelton: […], volume I, London: Thomas Rodd, […], published 1843, →OCLC, page 319, lines 216–217
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Chicago

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