Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To provide with property, income, or a source of income.
- transitive verb To equip or supply with a talent or quality.
- transitive verb To imagine as having a usually favorable trait or quality.
- transitive verb Obsolete To provide with a dower.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb 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
- transitive verb To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by
with , rarely byof
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb 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. - verb 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.
- verb To
bestow freely. - verb To be
furnished with somethingnaturally .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb furnish with an endowment
- verb give qualities or abilities to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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We have (with Tregelles) avoided both by rendering the word "endow," which includes "power," and whatever other gifts were necessary for their mission.
Commentary on Revelation 1837-1913 1909
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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.
SaaS Blogs 2010
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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.
SaaS Blogs 2010
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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.
SaaS Blogs Microsoft SaaS Architecture Team Experiences SaaSG 2010
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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.
SaaS Blogs 2010
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Maybe we can endow another more worthy university with the name of Our Lady in the distant future.
Fr. Reese's flawed arguments for Pres. Obama at Notre Dame 2009
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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.
Geopolitics 2010
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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.
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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.
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