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Definitions of endow
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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. Webster Dictionary DB
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To bestow a permanent fund or source of income upon; as, to endow a college; furnish with a gift, faculty, etc. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.
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To give a dowry or marriage-portion to: to settle a permanent provision on: to enrich with any gift or faculty. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.
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To furnish with a dower; enrich with a gift. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.
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To provide with a permanent fund or income. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.
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To furnish or equip. as with natural gifts. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.
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give qualities or abilities to Scrapingweb Dictionary DB
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To settle a dower on; to provide for by an endowment; to furnish with any gift, quality, or faculty. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.
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To settle on or furnish with in permanency; to settle money or property on permanently; to enrich or provide with, as a gift, quality, or faculty. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H. Published 1874.
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ENDOWER. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.
What are the misspellings for endow?
Usage examples for endow
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He
told
me
that
his
elderly
mistress
wanted
to
become
his
wife,
but
that
he
would
not
hear
of
it,
though
she
offered
to
endow
him
with
all
her
worldly
goods.
– The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
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And
also,
does
it
not
follow
that
if
this
dead
universe
again
lives,
a
superior
power
must
draw
back
the
scattered
beams
of
light,
heat,
magnetism,
and
other
forces,
and
re-
endow
the
dead
residuum?
– Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
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