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Webster 1828 Edition

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Settling a dower on; furnishing with a permanent fund; inducing.

endowing

present participle of endow
- 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “chapter III”, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, OCLC 884653065:
  
  A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.