online medical dictionary | definition of indue

1. To put on, as clothes; to draw on. "The baron had indued a pair of jack boots." (Sir W. Scott)

2. To clothe; to invest; hence, to endow; to furnish; to supply with moral or mental qualities. "Indu'd with robes of various hue she flies." (Dryden) "Indued with intellectual sense and souls." (Shak)

Origin: Indued; Induing

Alternative forms: endue] [L. Induere to put on, clothe, fr. OL. Indu (fr. In- in) + a root seen also in L. Exuere to put off, divest, exuviae the skin of an animal, slough, induviae clothes. Cf. Endue to invest.

(01 Mar 1998)