Word Meanings - INDUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

indu + a root seen also in L. exuere to put off, divest, exuviae the skin of an animal, slough, induviae clothes. Cf. Endue to 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;

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indu + a root seen also in L. exuere to put off, divest, exuviae the skin of an animal, slough, induviae clothes. Cf. Endue to 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.

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• SLOUGHING
  The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
• INDUCER
  One who, or that which, induces or incites.
• BARONET
  A dignity or degree of honor next below a baron and above a knight, having precedency of all orders of knights except those of the Garter. It is the lowest degree of honor that is hereditary. The baronets are commoners. Note: The order was founded
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• INDUSTRIOUS
  1. Given to industry; characterized by diligence; constantly, regularly, or habitually occupied; busy; assiduous; not slothful or idle; -- commonly implying devotion to lawful and useful labor. Frugal and industrious men are commonly friendly to
• BARONIAL
  Pertaining to a baron or a barony. "Baronial tenure." Hallam.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• BARONAGE
  1. The whole body of barons or peers. The baronage of the kingdom. Bp. Burnet. 2. The dignity or rank of a baron. 3. The land which gives title to a baron.
• INVESTIGATIVE
  Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.
• INDUVIAE
  Persistent portions of a calyx or corolla; also, leaves which do not disarticulate from the stem, and hence remain for a long time.
• INDUTIVE
  Covered; -- applied to seeds which have the usual integumentary covering.
• INDULT; INDULTO
  A duty levied on all importations. (more info) indultus, p. p. of indulgere: cf. It. indulto, F. indult. See 1. A privilege or exemption; an indulgence; a dispensation granted by the pope.
• INDULINE
  Any one of a large series of aniline dyes, colored blue or violet, and represented by aniline violet. A dark green amorphous dyestuff, produced by the oxidation of aniline in the presence of copper or vanadium salts; -- called also aniline black.
• INDUCTORIUM
  An induction coil.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• REINDUCE
  To induce again.