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μετεν-δύω , causal in aor. 1,
A.put other clothes on a person, “θοἰμάτιον τὸ Ἑλληνικὸν περισπάσας αὐτοῦ βαρβαρικὸν μετενέδυσα” Luc.Bis Acc.34: metaph., τὸν Μαιάνδριον τὴν τυραννίδα μετενέδυσε invested him with . . , Id.Nec.16.
II. Med. μετενδύομαι, c. aor. Act. μετενέδυ_ν, Str.17.1.43:—put on other clothes, τὴν ἐσθῆτα l. c., cf. J.Vit.28, AJ20.6.1; “τὰς στολάς” D.C.46.39, cf. Max. Tyr.4.2: metaph., of souls assuming new bodies, “μ. ἐς γυναικέα σκάνεα” Ti.Locr. 104d.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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