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 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
They had endowed fellowships for conservative graduate students, postdoctoral positions and professorships at prestigious universities.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 30, 2016
But Fate, as has been said, who had endowed the Rev. Eli Mallow with wealth, a handsome presence, and with good intellect, had not been chary in the matter of what commercial people term set-offs.
From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by George Manville Fenn
