Definition of "cloathe"

All riding before the venerable Religious Brethren of the Abbey of Saint Rhemigius, attired in white Aulbes, with the Crosse and Torchlight, singing Processionally, and the two Chauntres cloathed in Coapes, each bearing a Staffe of Siluer.

1623, Anthony Munday, transl., The Theater of Honour and Knight-hood, or, A Compendious Chronicle and Historie of the Whole Christian World‎, London, translation of original by André Favyn, book 2, chapter 14, page 306

[…] the Souls of men also shall then catch life from the more pure and Balsamick parts of the Earth, and be cloathed again in terrestriall bodies […]

1662, John Heydon, “Epistle Dedicatory”, in The Harmony of the World‎, London: Robert Horn

The lofty mountains roſe faint to the ſight and loſt their foreheads in the diſtant ſkies: the little hills, cloathed in darker green and ſkirted with embroidered vales, diſcovered the ſecret haunts of kids and bounding roes.

1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv

I wiſh you had ſent with your bill a few minutes of your life of faith, you might have inſtructed me while you are cloathing others;

a. 1793, John Berridge, “To Lady Margaret Ingham”, in W. Holland, editor, The Christian’s Warfare and Crown. A Sermon occasioned by the death of the Rev. John Berridge, who departed this Life, Jan. 3, 1793: […], London: […] T. Wilkins, […], published 1793, page 28

His happiness in knowing himself to have been so long the beloved of such a heart, must have been great enough to warrant any strength of language in which he could cloathe it to her or to himself; […]

1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XVII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], page 349