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endowed - 2 dictionary results

en⋅dow

  [en-dou]
Use endowed in a Sentence
–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.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME endowen < OF endouer, equiv. to en- en- 1 + douer < L dōtāre to dower, equiv. to dōt- (s. of dōs) dowry + -āre inf. suffix

Related forms:
en⋅dow⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
2. invest, clothe, endue.
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en·dow   (ěn-dou')   
tr.v.   en·dowed, en·dow·ing, en·dows
  1. To provide with property, income, or a source of income.
    1. To equip or supply with a talent or quality: Nature endowed you with a beautiful singing voice.
    2. To imagine as having a usually favorable trait or quality: endowed the family pet with human intelligence.
  3. Obsolete To provide with a dower.

[Middle English endowen, from Anglo-Norman endouer : Old French en-, intensive pref.; see en-1 + Old French douer, to provide with a dowry (from Latin dōtāre, from dōs, dōt-, dowry; see dō- in Indo-European roots).]
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