Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Clothe

Clothe (klōt) , transitive verb

[Old English clathen, clothen, clethen, Anglo-Saxon clāeian, claean. See Cloth.]

1.
To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress.
Go with me, to clothe you as becomes you. — Shakespeare
2.
To provide with clothes; as, to feed and clothe a family; to clothe one's self extravagantly.
Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. — Bible (KJV) - Proverb xxiii. 21
The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. — Goldsmith
3.
Figuratively: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power.
Language in which they can clothe their thoughts. — Watts
His sides are clothed with waving wood. — J. Dyer
Thus Belial, with with words clothed in reason's garb. — Milton

Clothe , intransitive verb

To wear clothes. [Poetic]
Care no more to clothe eat. — Shakespeare