Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To provide with property, income, or a source of income.
- v. To equip or supply with a talent or quality: Nature endowed you with a beautiful singing voice.
- v. To imagine as having a usually favorable trait or quality: endowed the family pet with human intelligence.
- v. Obsolete To provide with a dower.
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.
Wiktionary
- v. 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.
- v. 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.
- v. To bestow freely.
- v. To be furnished with something naturally.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. 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
- v. To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by
with , rarely byof
WordNet 3.0
- v. furnish with an endowment
- v. give qualities or abilities to
Etymologies
- From Anglo-Norman endover, en- + Old French douer (from Latin dotare). (Wiktionary)
- 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). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We have (with Tregelles) avoided both by rendering the word "endow," which includes "power," and whatever other gifts were necessary for their mission.”
“Interestingly, modern technology allows us to do things like "endow" an application with SaaS with very little intrusiveness whereas in the past, this may have required a new stack.”
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“Third, America needs to recognize that the approaches taken thus far have failed; and like the typical tourist in a foreign country, saying the same thing progressively more loudly in English does not miraculously endow the French person with comprehension; it just pisses them off.”
“Maybe we can endow another more worthy university with the name of Our Lady in the distant future.”
“Alfred and Claude Mann's gift to the Naumburg Foundation follows $6 million in donations to endow chairs in Robert's name at the Manhattan School of Music and at University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music.”
The Wall Street Journal: Couple Vow to Keep Family's Legacy Alive
“On November 6, 2012, American voters will be offered a Republican nominee who denies the reality of global warming; a self-proclaimed fiscal conservative who will not raise taxes on the wealthy by a single dollar; a so-called constitutional conservative who proposes to rewrite our 228-year-old founding document to endow fertilized eggs with human rights, deny equal civil rights to our fellow gay citizens, and take birthright citizenship away from living Americans.”
The Huffington Post: Nancy L. Cohen: Why the GOP Circus Has Mattered
“When European leaders wrote a constitution that attempted to capture the spirit and powers of the Union in uplifting language and to endow it with an anthem and a flag, things went badly wrong.”
“He was certain he understood her thoughts - why would God endow us with fierce desires that were to be ignored?”
“If I were Bill Gates or someone like him here is what I would do: I would endow several of the best colleges and universities to create a new kind of teacher education program.”
The Washington Post: Teacher: If I were Bill Gates (here’s how I would help improve the profession)
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