† indument Obs.
[In branch I, ad. L. indument-um garment, clothing, f. induĕre to put on. (The L. is also in current scientific use: see sense 2.) In branch II = enduement, endowment.]
I. (ˈindument.)
1. Clothing, investiture; an article of clothing, a garment, robe, vesture.
| 1494 Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxxi. 243 This palle is an indument that euery archebysshop must haue..and is a thynge of whyte lyke to the bredeth of a Stole. 1586 J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 338 The conquered shall forfeit to the victor all his robes or indumentes of honour. 1609 Bell Theoph. & Remig. 2 He caused..the papall induments to be taken away. 1640 Bp. Reynolds Passions xxxvi. 435 Their Lives and Substance [of animals were given to man] to Aliment, Indument, Ornament or any other use. |
| fig. 1589 Nashe Almond for Parrat 3 That thou sholdst adorne thy false dealing with the induments of discipline. 1684 T. Hockin Gods Decrees 176 The wedding garment..must be understood of the inward sanctity and indument of the heart. |
b. fig. A material body or form, regarded as the investiture of the soul.
| 1592 Nashe P. Penilesse (Shaks. Soc.) 83 Spirits..although in their proper essence they are incorporal, yet can they take upon them the induments of any living bodies whatsoever. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §36. 565 Ancient Christian Writers concurred with Origen herein, that the Highest Created Spirits were no Naked and Abstract Minds, but Souls cloathed with some Corporeal Indument. |
2. Nat. Hist. A covering, as of hair, feathers, etc.; an investment, integument; an investing membrane. (Also in Lat. form indumentum.)
| 1578 Banister Hist. Man viii. 100 [The] Pia Mater..with which indument the brayne and Cerebellum are nearely clad. 1864 Webster, Indument (Zool.), plumage; feathers. [1880 Gray Struct. Bot. (ed. 6) 416/2 Indumentum, any hairy covering or pubescence which forms a coating.] |
II. (inˈdument.)
3. The action of investing or fact of being invested with some quality or attribute; also the quality or attribute with which something is invested; = enduement.
| 1527 St. Papers Hen. VIII, I. 243 For the parilite of your mutual indumentes, both of grace and nature. 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1877) 42 Without the induments of vertue, whereto only al reuerence is due. 1659 H. More Immort. Soul (1662) 31 It is as easy a thing for him to..indue it [a creature] with what other Properties he pleases..which induments being immediately united [etc.]. |
4. = endowment.
| 1602–3 Sir E. Stanhope Will in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 672 The Benefactors who haue given anie yearelie perpetuitie of maintenaunce to that Colledg..together with the perticuler induments which they have so yearelie given. |