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  1. transitive verb To provide with property, income, or a source of income.
  2. transitive verb To equip or supply with a talent or quality: Nature endowed you with a beautiful singing voice.
  3. transitive verb To imagine as having a usually favorable trait or quality: endowed the family pet with human intelligence.
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  • These computers, salted through virtually all our material possessions and almost every cubic foot of a room, will endow ordinary surfaces and objects with enough pure intelligence to run and repair themselves, respond to environmental conditions and emergencies, and adapt to our human idiosyncrasies and needs. —  Omni: April 1993
  • The primary object of Miss Walker's settlement is to build and endow, for divine service, a cathedral church in Edinburgh; the edifice to cost not less than L40,000. —  Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character
  • Ambrose donated about $500,000 to the university before his death in 2002 to endow a professorship of military history. —  WBAY Action 2 News
  • The Deep can, if a young man lays eyes on it at just the right moment, endow that boy with a lifelong / love-life-complicating fetish.
  • T2: one of the main objectives of Edward Furlong in the movie is to, among other things, endow his Cyborg sidekick with a personality and a sense of humor. —  N-Philes
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  1. Middle English endowen, from Anglo-Norman endouer : Old French en-, intensive pref.; see en-1 + Old French douer, to provide with a dowry (from Latin dōtāre, from dōs, dōt-, dowry; see dō- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Formerly also indow (also endew, endue: see endue); from Middle English endowen, from Anglo-French endower, Old French endouer (= Provencal endotar), from en- + douer, doer, French douer, endow: see dow, dower, dowry. Cf. endue.
 

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