Endow
[ɪn'daʊ;en-] or [ɪn'daʊ]
Definition
(verb.) furnish with an endowment; 'When she got married, she got dowered'.
(verb.) give qualities or abilities to.
Checked by Justin--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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. t.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Furnish with a dowry, settle a dower upon.[2]. Furnish with a fund, supply with means.[3]. Enrich, endue, indue, invest.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Present, enrich, furnish, qualify, adorn, invest, supply, clothe, endue
ANT:Denude, spoliate, strip, disendow, deprive, divest
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Definition
v.t. to give a dowry or marriage-portion to: to settle a permanent provision on: to enrich with any gift or faculty: to present.—ns. Endow′er; Endow′ment act of endowing: that which is settled on any person or institution: a quality or faculty bestowed on any one.
Editor: Quentin
Examples
- You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A man can manufacture a plough and operate it, but no amount of ploughs will create a man and endow him with skill. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I am weak; but surely the spirits who assist my vengeance will endow me with sufficient strength. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- As it has a double task to perform, it must be endowed with double force and energy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Edison’s record was not for visual inspection, but was endowed with the mechanical function of reproducing sound. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Two non-entities cannot exclude each other from their places; because they never possess any place, nor can be endowed with any quality. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I was not endowed either with brains or with good fortune, and confess that I have committed a hundred mistakes and blunders. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But he was unluckily endowed with a good name and a large though encumbered estate, both of which went rather to injure than to advance him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- For where, Fanny, shall we find a woman whom nature had so richly endowed? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- They helped to organize a formless resentment by endowing it with intelligence and will. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We can thus understand why nature moves by graduated steps in endowing different animals of the same class with their several instincts. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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