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endowed

[en-dou] Example Sentences Origin

en·dow

[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.
3.
Obsolete. to provide with a dower.
verb (used without object)
4.
(of a life-insurance policy) to become payable; yield its conditions.

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Endowed is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English endowen < Old French endouer, equivalent to en- en-1 + douer < Latin dōtāre to dower, equivalent to dōt- (stem of dōs) dowry + -āre infinitive suffix

en·dow·er, noun
re·en·dow, verb (used with object)
su·per·en·dow, verb (used with object)
un·en·dowed, adjective
un·en·dow·ing, adjective
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well-en·dowed, adjective
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2. invest, clothe, endue.

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Example Sentences
  • Cemeteries today generally include endowed care with the cost of the grave.
  • Human beings are endowed with the power to see that doubts are doubts, and to resolve some of them, rightly or wrongly.
  • Rockefeller endowed foundations that are still important .
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Word Origin & History

endow
late 14c., from Anglo-Fr. endover, from en- "in" + O.Fr. douer "endow," from L. dotare "bestow" (see dowry). Related: Endowing.
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endowed
1700, pp. adj. from endow.
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