To provide or equip someone with a quality, ability, or characteristic; to put on or assume (archaic: to put on clothing).
From Old French 'enduire', from Latin 'inducere' (to lead in, to put on), where 'in-' (in) plus 'ducere' (to lead). Over time, the meaning shifted from physically putting on to figuratively endowing with qualities.
Endue is Shakespeare's word—he used it for how God 'endued' people with reason and virtue—but the medical world kept it alive by talking about how someone is 'endued with resistance' or 'endued with talent' in scientific writing.
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