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/ɛndˈaʊ/ Listen

verb

Endow v. t. (past & past part. endowed; pres. part. endowing)

To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution. "Endowing hospitals and almshouses."

To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Endow" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the United States of America. It would appear that your wishes are at length accomplished, and that every possible circumstance is united, at this moment, in our favour. Would to God that Providence would endow us with sufficient wisdom to make the most advantageous use of ...

— Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete • Matthew L. Davis

... all ready, by which you revoke all former wills, and endow the holy church with your property. We will read it, for God forbid that it should be said that the holy ...

— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Captain Frederick Marryat

... it is as absurd to think that John conceded modern liberty when he granted the charter of medieval liberties, as to think that he permitted some one to found a new religion when he licensed him to endow a new religious house (novam religionem); and to regard Magna Carta as a great popular achievement, when no vernacular version of it is known to have existed before the sixteenth century, and when it contains hardly a word or an idea of popular English ...

— The History of England - A Study in Political Evolution • A. F. Pollard

... in no smug complacency, listened to this man, respected him and supported him, and on his death a number of people were glad to unite to endow a lectureship in his honor ...

— Historical Essays • James Ford Rhodes

... yoke—what! shall we for that very reason deprive ourselves of the only man able to resist him? Harold hath taken an oath! God wot, who among us have not taken some oath at law for which they have deemed it meet afterwards to do a penance, or endow a convent? The wisest means to strengthen Harold against that oath, is to show the moral impossibility of fulfilling it, by placing him on the throne. The best proof we can give to this insolent Norman that England is not for prince to leave, ...

— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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