Endowment
[ɪn'daʊm(ə)nt;en-] or [ɪn'daʊmənt]
Definition
(noun.) the act of endowing with a permanent source of income; 'his generous endowment of the laboratory came just in the nick of time'.
(noun.) natural abilities or qualities.
(noun.) the capital that provides income for an institution.
Typist: Robinson--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.
(n.) That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college.
(n.) That which is given or bestowed upon the person or mind; gift of nature; accomplishment; natural capacity; talents; -- usually in the plural.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Gift, grant, bequest, boon, largess, bounty, present.[2]. Property, fund, revenue.[3]. Talent, faculty, quality, power, ability, capacity, capability, aptitude, parts, genius, qualification.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Gift, provision, benefit, benefaction, talent, capacity, attainment,qualification
ANT:Impoverishment, spoliation, disendowment, incapacity, poverty, lack
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Examples
- I have something beyond this, but I will call it a defect, not an endowment, if it leads me to misery, while ye are happy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Moreover, the native or original endowment was conceived, in extreme cases, as nonsocial or even as antisocial. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The material of instruction, the method of instruction, and the type of educational institution, will vary with the hereditary endowment, age, and probable soc ial destiny of the child. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- As a result, the chick is limited by the relative perfection of its original endowment. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- You must not suppose it to be a fine endowment. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- When subscriptions were opened for the erection and endowment of the Pasteur Institute, a sum of 2,586,680 francs was received in contributions from many different parts of the world. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But for educational purposes heredity means neither more nor less than the original endowment of an individual. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- How can it be otherwise than sweet with your endowments and nature? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Have those public endowments contributed in general, to promote the end of their institution? Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It is possible that without his endowments from the king he would have made but a small figure in intellectual history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Vengeance and the Juryman, looking after her as she walked away, were highly appreciative of her fine figure, and her superb moral endowments. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The early death of Alexander and the breaking up of his empire almost before it had begun, put an end to endowments on this scale for 2000 years. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Amongst her other endowments she boasted an exquisite skill in the art, of provocation, sometimes driving her _bonne_ and the servants almost wild. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The endowments of schools and colleges have necessarily diminished, more or less, the necessity of application in the teachers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Will not such an one from his early childhood be in all things first among all, especially if his bodily endowments are like his mental ones? Plato. The Republic.
- It is not personal, but mental endowments they have given you: you are formed for labour, not for love. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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