endow
- to provide with a permanent fund or source of income: to endow a college.
- to furnish, as with some talent, faculty, or quality; equip: Nature has endowed her with great ability.
- Obsolete. to provide with a dower.
- (of a life-insurance policy) to become payable; yield its conditions.
Origin of endow
Synonyms for endow
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subsidize, enable, enrich, empower, bestow, enhance, donate, organize, supply, contribute, back, subscribe, bequeath, sponsor, establish, endue, will, grant, provide, supportExamples from the Web for endow
Contemporary Examples of endow
So we now endow somewhat Islamicism, which we would condemn with the greatest contempt if it were a fundamentalist Christianity.
To expect him to control events would be to endow him with a power that no president has possessed.
Just this year, Betsy and Dick Devos, trustees from Michigan, pledged $22 million to endow an art management program.
Historical Examples of endow
Youth is prone to endow its opinions with all the dignity of certain knowledge.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
What was lacking in his power that he could not endow them with life?
His MasterpieceEmile Zola
Small beginnings of the fortune that was to found and endow asylums!
Hidden HandEmma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
What he did was to endow the church with this admirable piece of head-gear.
The GypsiesCharles G. Leland
But He will endow her with all His wealth, and raise her to sit with Him on a throne forever.
The Wedding RingT. De Witt Talmage
endow
- to provide with or bequeath a source of permanent income
- (usually foll by with) to provide (with qualities, characteristics, etc)
- obsolete to provide with a dower