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present singular third person indues · participle present induing · participle past indued · past indued · first person past singular indued · archaic present second person singular induest · past second person singular indued · archaic past second person singular induedst · present singular third person indues · archaic present singular third person indueth · past singular third person indued · past plural indued · past subjunctive indued · participle present induing · participle past indued
- datedDated form of endue.
And behold, I [Jesus] ſend the promiſe of my Father vpon you: but tarie ye in the citie of Hieruſalem, vntill ye be indued with power from on high.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 24:49, signature J3, recto, column 25 more examples
Some reaſons of this double Coronation / I haue poſſeſt you vvithm, and thinke them ſtrong, / And more, more ſtrong, then leſſer is my feare / I ſhall indue you vvith: […]
c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 15, column 1Pallas [Athena], forth-vvith, an old-vviues ſhape indues; / Her hair all vvhite; her lims, appearing vveake, / A ſtaffe ſupports: vvho thus began to ſpeake.
1626, Ovid, “The Sixth Booke”, in George Sandys, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphosis Englished […], London: […] William Stansby, →OCLC, page 108[The altar in St. Peter's Basilica] of St. Veronica made by Fra[ncesco] Mochi, has over it in the Reliquary, where they shew'd us the miraculous Sudarium indued wᵗʰ the picture of oʳ Saviour [Jesus]'s face, […]
1644 November 26 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 17 November 1644]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC, page 111Perhaps my ſemblance might deceive the truth, / That I to manhood am arriv'd ſo near, / And invvard ripenes doth much leſs appear / That ſom more timely-happy ſpirits indu'th.
1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “Sonnet VII”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC, page 49Some aſcribe to the ſanctity of this Ioſeph [of Arimathea], the yearly budding of the Havv-thorn near Glaſſenbury, on Chriſtmas day, no leſſe then an annual Miracle. […] Hovvever, there is no neceſſity, that this ſhould be imputed to the Holineſs of Arimathean Ioſeph. For there is (as is credibly ſaid) an Oake in Nevv-Foreſt, nigh Lindhurſt, in Hantſhire, vvhich is indued vvith the ſame quality, putting forth leaves about the ſame time; […]
1655, Thomas Fuller, “I. Centurie.”, in The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, book I, page 8
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