endueinduev.

Etymology: < Old French enduire (also in semi-learned form induire ), corresponding to Provençal endurre , Catalan induir , Italian indurre (compare the ‘learned’ forms Spanish inducir , Portuguese induzir , Italian inducere ) < Latin indūcĕre (see induce v.), < in into, on + dūcĕre to lead, draw. The etymological senses ‘lead into’, ‘draw into’, ‘lead on’, ‘draw on’, account for the English senses 1 – 6, which approximately follow the senses of Old French enduire , induire . In senses 5, 6, however, the word was associated with the nearly synonymous Latin induĕre to put on (a garment), which it often renders in early translations from Latin. (Perhaps it would not be incorrect to say that the Latin induĕre was adapted in a form coinciding with that of the verb < Old French enduire .) Senses 7 – 9 are of mixed origin: they are partly derived from the figurative use of sense 6 ‘to clothe’ (compare invest ); but the forms endew , indew in 15th cent. (sense 8) are etymologically equivalent to endow v. (compare Old French deu 1st person present indicative of doër to endow). Hence in 16th and 17th centuries the verb endue had all the senses of endow v. in addition to those which it derived < Old French enduire and Latin induĕre . In sense 9 the meanings proceeding from the three sources have so completely coalesced that it is often impossible to say which of them is the most prominent in a particular use of the word. The form endue is now the more common in all the living senses, though some writers employ it and indue indiscriminately, while others appropriate the latter to those uses (esp. senses 5, 6) which suggest an etymological connection with Latin induere . The obsolete sense 2, when referred to by modern writers, has commonly the spelling endew.