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Clothe   /kloʊð/   Listen
verb
Clothe  v. t.  (past & past part. clothed or clad; pres. part. clothing)  
1.
To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress. "Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you."
2.
To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly. "Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags." "The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes."
3.
Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power. "Language in which they can clothe their thoughts." "His sides are clothed with waving wood." "Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's garb."



Clothe  v. i.  (past & past part. clothed or clad; pres. part. clothing)  To wear clothes. (Poetic) "Care no more to clothe eat."






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"Clothe" Quotes from Famous Books



... but Esmeralda realised that nothing but a direct request would convince her of the extraordinary fact that her absence was for once more desired than her presence. For obvious reasons such a request could not be made, and as the time was quickly passing nothing remained but to clothe her hints even more circumspectly ...
— More about Pixie • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... flushed. He wanted to knock Philip's teeth down his throat. He knew that his mother had hard work to clothe him, and felt the insult. He went into the school-house, choked his anger down, and tried to forget all about it by drawing a picture of the master. It was an excellent likeness,—his spindle legs, great feet, short pants, loose coat, sunken ...
— Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 - An Illustrated Magazine • Various

... spirit is the spirit of self-renunciation and glad submission to proper authority, service utterly disinterested, yielding our own preferences and interests unreservedly for the glory of the Master and the sake of our brethren. Lord, clothe us with humility ...
— Days of Heaven Upon Earth • Rev. A. B. Simpson

... perceptions whole, like that he sought To clothe, reject so pure a work of thought As language: thought may take perception's place, But hardly coexist in any case, Being its mere presentment,—of the whole By parts, the simultaneous and the sole By the successive and the ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 79, May, 1864 • Various

... far fallen into the notion of these objectors as to speak of Byron in his youth as "an unbelieving school-boy," when the word "doubting" would have more truly expressed my meaning. With this necessary explanation, I shall here repeat my assertion; or rather—to clothe its substance in a different form—shall say that Lord Byron was, to the last, a sceptic, which, in itself, implies that he was, at no ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) - With his Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore


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