indew

English

Verb

indew (third-person singular simple present indews, present participle indewing, simple past and past participle indewed)

  1. Obsolete spelling of endue.
    • 1575, George Turberuile [i.e.. George Turberville], “Of Feeding a Hawke”, in The Booke of Faulconrie or Hauking, for the Onely Delight and Plerasure of All Noblemen and Gentlemen: [], London: [] [Henry Bynneman] for Christopher Barker, [], →OCLC, page 138:
      Cattes fleſhe is vnholeſome, and harde to be indewed, and breedeth perillous wormes, and ſtoppeth a Hawke in the gorge, and marreth hir winde.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 35, page 488:
      Infinite ſhapes of creatures there [in the Garden of Eden] are bred, / And vncouth formes, vvhich none yet euer knevv, / [] / Some fitt for reaſonable ſovvles t’indew, / Some made for beaſts, ſome made for birds to vveare, []
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. [], London: [] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 9, page 545:
      He did her ſeruice devvtifull, and ſevvd / At hand vvith humble pride, and pleaſing guile, / So cloſely yet, that none but ſhe it vevved, / VVho vvell perceiued all, and all indevvd.

Conjugation

Conjugation of indew
infinitive (to) indew
present tense past tense
1st-person singular indew indewed
2nd-person singular indew, indewest indewed, indewedst
3rd-person singular indews, indeweth indewed
plural indew
subjunctive indew indewed
imperative indew
participles indewing indewed

Archaic or obsolete.

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