clothe

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Meaning

To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress.

To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly.

Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power.

To wear clothes.

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When someone steals a person's clothes, we call him a thief. Should we not also give the same name to the one who could clothe the naked but does not? Basil of Caesarea

If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father? Isaac the Syrian

The And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stoln forth of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. William Shakespeare

Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same mind as Thou art; I am Thine; I refuse nothing that pleases Thee; lead me where Thou wilt; clothe me in any dress Thou choosest. Epictetus

The rigour of science requires that we distinguish well the undraped figure of Nature itself from the gay-coloured vesture with which we clothe her at our pleasure. Heinrich Hertz

He whose mother is naked is not likely to clothe his aunt. African Proverb

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