[B-Greek] ENDUW
Maurice A. O'Sullivan
mauros at iol.ie
Fri Mar 14 19:23:09 EST 2003
" The Times " today publishes a hitherto unknown novella, Stancliffe's
Hotel, written in 1838 by Charlotte Brontë, when she was 23.
It is annotated at various points by a modern editor, and I thought
list-members might be as intrigued as I am to find that the literal use of
ENDUW persisted into the 19th. century.
At one point, she writes:
>>
He wore a blue dress-coat with velvet collar, velvet waistcoat and charming
white tights: I endued <<
and the annotation reads: [put on as a garment (OED); the word also has
the sense of "invest or endow with a spiritual gift", and carries a
mock-heroic resonance here; frock; frock-coat]
Regards
Maurice
Maurice A. O'Sullivan [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros at iol.ie
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