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endow

[ en-dou ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to provide with a permanent fund or source of income:

    to endow a college.

  2. to furnish, as with some talent, faculty, or quality; equip:

    Nature has endowed her with great ability.

    Synonyms: , ,

  3. Obsolete. to provide with a dower.


verb (used without object)

  1. (of a life-insurance policy) to become payable; yield its conditions.

endow

/ ɪˈ岹ʊ /

verb

  1. to provide with or bequeath a source of permanent income
  2. usually foll by with to provide (with qualities, characteristics, etc)
  3. obsolete.
    to provide with a dower
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈǷɱ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·Ƿ· noun
  • ··Ƿ verb (used with object)
  • ···Ƿ verb (used with object)
  • ܲ··Ƿ·Բ adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of endow1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English endowen, from Old French endouer, equivalent to en- en- 1 + douer, from Latin ō “to dower,” equivalent to ō- (stem of ō ) “dowry” + - infinitive suffix
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of endow1

C14: from Old French endouer, from en- 1+ douer , from Latin ō, from ō dowry
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Because even the robber barons were not that bad; at least they endowed some libraries and foundations and fellowships and had some idea of wanting to pretend to some sort of cultural capital.

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Noted physicist Stephen Hawking, a supporter of the Palestinian cause, participated in an academic boycott of Israel and endowed an astronomy chair at a university in the West Bank.

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It was as if talking money, and earning it, would act as a vaccine that endowed our family with immunity against all those nasty lethal airborne pathogens.

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It's endowed with the eighth largest reserves of so-called rare earth elements, which are vital for making everything from mobile phones to batteries and electric motors.

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Tamil temples grew into vast complexes and public spaces, surrounded by markets and endowed with rice-estates.

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