indue

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One needs but little tackle to travel in; So, just one stout cloak shall I indue: And for a staff, what beats the javelin875 With which his boars my father pinned you?

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

At length the boy and girl go upstairs to be "got ready," which means that they indue other garments yet more uncomfortable than those they already wear.

From The Emancipated by Gissing, George

How has she sinned, devout and true, The noblest monarch's child, That she should garb of bark indue And journey to the wild?

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

And I shall thereupon Take rest, ere I be gone80 Once more on my adventure brave and new: Fearless and unperplexed, When I wage battle next, What weapons to select, what armor to indue.

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

Let not self-love, wit, craft, and timorousness corrupt his mind, but indue him with fortitude, patience, steadfastness, tenderness, mortification .

From Bunyan Characters (1st Series) by Whyte, Alexander