Endow

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  • transitive verb. To provide with property, income, or a source of income.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To equip or supply with a talent or quality.
  • transitive verb. To imagine as having a usually favorable trait or quality.
  • transitive verb. To provide with a dower.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To bestow or settle a dower on; provide with dower.
  • To settle money or other property on; furnish with a permanent fund or source of income: as, to endow a college or a church.
  • To furnish, as with some gift, quality, or faculty, mental or physical; equip: as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to be endowed with beauty, strength, or power.
  • Synonyms Endue, Endow. See endue.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. 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
  • transitive verb. To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by with, rarely by of
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. 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.
  • verb. 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.
  • verb. To bestow freely.
  • verb. To be furnished with something naturally.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. furnish with an endowment
  • verb. give qualities or abilities to
  • Word Usage
    "We have (with Tregelles) avoided both by rendering the word "endow," which includes "power," and whatever other gifts were necessary for their mission."
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