endow
verb (used with object)
to provide with a permanent fund or source of income.
had endowed
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past perfectof endow.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He occupied a chair that a longtime client, Ross Perot, had endowed for him in gratitude for years of tax advice that had saved the Texas entrepreneur untold millions of dollars.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2020
In addition to looming prison time, Avenatti had his name stripped from the award he had endowed at George Washington University’s law school.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2020
When Mohananey asked him about the delay, Azhar said he’d been distributing amulets to his followers in prison, who believed he had endowed them with supernatural powers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2020
When Adam told his parents that Grant was a Georgetown tennis recruit, his father speculated that Grant’s billionaire family had endowed a building at the university.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2019
In early times some of the members of the Upper Chamber had endowed themselves, but there were very few of the old stock left.
From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton
