indue

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Our party being at length complete, to the number of ten, we indue our cloaks, and, pioneered by the ward-beadle with his ponderous mace, we sally forth to feel the charitable pulse of several parishes.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

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

And the fruits, of late commencing     To indue their glowing tint, Richest beauty are enhancing     As they catch his gentle glint.

From Verses of Feeling and Fancy by MacKeracher, Wm. M.

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)

All honour that may be attributed unto any man by a wife, he hath it wholly and fully ... all dignities that she can indue him with are already given and granted.

From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various