different between insist vs endue

English

Etymology

Partly from Middle French insister, from Latin ?nsistere; and partly from a back-formation from insistence.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?s?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Hyphenation: in?sist

Verb

insist (third-person singular simple present insists, present participle insisting, simple past and past participle insisted)

1. (with on or upon or (that + ordinary verb form)) To hold up a claim emphatically.

   (I am defending her; see a similar example in the context below for comparison.)
2. (sometimes with on or upon or (that + subjunctive)) To demand continually that something happen or be done.

3. (obsolete, chiefly geometry) To stand (on); to rest (upon); to lean (upon).

Translations

Anagrams

• INSTIs, sit-ins, sits in

English

Alternative forms

• indue
• indew

Etymology

From Old French enduire, partly from Latin ind?cere (“lead in”), partly from en- + duire (from the same Latin root). Doublet of induce.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?dju?/, /?n?dju?/

Verb

endue (third-person singular simple present endues, present participle enduing, simple past and past participle endued)

1. (obsolete) To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

     none but she it vewed, / Who well perceiued all, and all indewed.

2. To take on, to take the form of.
3. To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something).

   • 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.

   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked

     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.

4. To invest (someone) with a given quality, property etc.; to endow.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.11:

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

   • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1

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

   • 1935, T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral, Part II:

     But after dissension

     Had ended, in France, and you were endued

     With your former privilege, how did you show your gratitude?

Derived terms

• enduement

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