Main Entry: clothe

Pronunciation: \ˈklōth\

Function: transitive verb

Inflected Form(s): clothed or clad \ˈklad\; cloth·ing

Etymology: Middle English, from Old English clāthian, from clāth

Date: before 12th century

1 a : to cover with or as if with cloth or clothing : dress b : to provide with clothes <the cost of feeding and clothing a family>
2 : to express or enhance by suitably significant language : couch <treaties clothed in stately phraseology>
3 : to endow especially with power or a quality <the nobility in which religion and history can clothe humanity — D.R. Wallace>