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Webster 1913 Edition
Endow
En-dow′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Endowed
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Endowing
.] 1.
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. Bp. Stillingfleet.
2.
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.Webster 1828 Edition
Endow
ENDOW'
,Verb.
T.
1.
To furnish with a portion of goods or estate, called dower; to settle a dower on, as on a married woman or widow.A wife is by law entitled to be endowed of all lands and tenements, of which her husband was seized in fee simple or fee tail during the coverture.
2.
To settle on, as a permanent provision; to furnish with a permanent fund of property; as, to endow a church; to endow a college with a fund to support a professor.3.
To enrich or furnish with any gift, quality or faculty; to indue. Man is endowed by his maker with reason.