endear (ender)

t. [Formerly also indear; And thou, to be endeared to a king, Made it no conscience to destroy a prince. Shak., K. John, iv. 2. IMG:content-0453.png:[blocks in formation] He lived to repent; and later services did endear his name to the Commonwealth. W. Phillips , Speeches, p. 337. Rafflesia po e es many other sterling qualities far more calculated than simple bigne to endear it to a large and varied circle of insect acquaintances. Pop. Sci . Mo., XXVI. 177. 21. To engage by attractive qualities; win by endearment. The expenses of his funeral, forty pounds, were directed to be paid from the public Treasury, "as a testimonial of the Colony's endeared love and affection to him." Plymouth Colony Records , in Appendix to New England's [Memorial, p. 467. 3t. To make dear or costly; raise the price of. Whereas, the exce e of newe buildings and erections hath daily more encreased, and is still like to do so; whereby and by the immoderate confluence of people thither, our said city [London] and the places adjoyning, are, and daily will be, more and more pestred, all victuals and other provisions endeared, . King James's Procl, conc. Buildings (1618), Rym. Fœd., [i. 107.