Definition of "endue"

Her mete was very crude, / She had not wel endude; […]

c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, page 63, lines 77–78

My transport of the afternoon, and the matter of physical contrast, made me endue the tactile apparatus of another man, any man but me, and imagine the beauty of Zip in his caressing arms.

1988, Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron

And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Luke 24:49

By this time the Baron, with the help of Mr. Saunderson, had indued a pair of jack-boots of large dimensions, and now invited our hero to follow him as he stalked clattering down the ample staircase […]

1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Waverley; […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown

Judaea greeted its monarch. He was to ascend to the immemorial sacring place of millennia of kings, there to be endued with the robe and crown of rule.

1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked

That the Sun, Moon, and Stars are living creatures, endued with soul and life, seems an innocent Error, and an harmless digression from truth […]

1646, Thomas Browne, “I.11”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […]

God made man for himſelf in his ovvn image; vvith Reaſon and freevvill: endued vvith vviſdom and holineſs; […]Footnote references omitted.

1658 November 26 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Richard Baxter, “[The Christian Religion. […].] The Profession of the Christian Religion. I. The Articles of Christian Belief.”, in Universal Concord. The First Part. The Sufficient Terms Proposed for the Use of Those that Have Liberty to Use Them: […], London: […] R. W[hite] for Nevil Simmons, […], published 1660, paragraph 2, page 5

Thus was th' accomplish'd squire endued / With gifts and knowledge per'lous shrewd.

1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, canto I

A being whom I myself had formed, and endued with life, had met me at midnight among the precipices of an inaccessible mountain.

1818, [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones

But after dissension / Had ended, in France, and you were endued / With your former privilege, how did you show your gratitude?

1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, part II