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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
endow
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
well
▪ And however well endowed he was with these qualities, he might still have difficulty on some points.
▪ Like the kidneys, the colon is well endowed with adenosine receptors.
▪ Edinburgh is very well endowed with library resources for associated research.
▪ His eldest brother Henry had cause to feel frustrated, but for a third son Geoffrey of Brittany was extremely well endowed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Donna's parents plan to endow a scholarship fund in memory of their daughter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it can not be used as a way of endowing anyone with authority where that person had none.
▪ Like the kidneys, the colon is well endowed with adenosine receptors.
▪ They were almost certainly endowed with highly developed sensory and intuitive powers seen only in the few remaining native tribes alive today.
▪ Vi wished the good Lord had endowed her with size fours, but it wasn't anybody's fault, really.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Endow

Endow \En*dow"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Endowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Endowing.] [OF. endouer; pref. en- (L. in) + F. douer to endow, L. dotare. See Dower, and cf. 2d Endue.]

  1. To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.

    Endowing hospitals and almshouses.
    --Bp. Stillingfleet.

  2. 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
endow

late 14c., indowen "provide an income for," from Anglo-French endover, from en- "in" (see en- (1)) + Old French douer "endow," from Latin dotare "bestow" (see dowry). Related: Endowed; endowing.

Wiktionary
endow

vb. 1 To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution. 2 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. 3 To bestow freely. 4 To be furnished with something naturally.

WordNet
endow
  1. v. give qualities or abilities to [syn: indue, gift, empower, invest, endue]

  2. furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got dowered" [syn: dower]

Usage examples of "endow".

Melbourne, Sir Abraham had the personal satisfaction of having the Solomon family endow the city with a plot of land in St Kilda Road for civic purposes and to finance a new wing for the public library.

Nor was this predecessor Cooper, whom Balzac admired and even imitated, altho Leatherstocking in tracking his redskin enemies revealed the tense observation and the faculty of deduction with which Poe was to endow his Dupin.

Napoleon by embodying the evil Apollyon in the person of a descendant of the great Emperor, and endowing him with all the qualities of his illustrious ancestor.

Terai and Bhabar Government Estates, and by reason of the large amount of the milk of human kindness that he was endowed with he had endeared himself to the large population, embracing all castes and creeds, living in the many thousands of square miles of country he ruled over.

It turns out that the embryo is endowed with other bipotential structures besides the primordial gonad.

While such scenes were being enacted in Paris, and while all through France the large class of poor and criminals created by Bourbonism was committing even worse excesses, the assembly was addressing itself to the task of regenerating France by endowing her with a constitution.

Familiar faces hove into view, some known personally, some known at the intimate remove of modern celebrityhood, local media types tanned and satisfied, a sprinkling of higher-magnitude stars down from the mountain in Aspen, the socialite grouper fish, the trolling politicos, and the renowned and endowed from the glamorous world of adult entertainment, all the well-connected folk you could ever hope to rig a hot wire to.

A law passed in the special Assembly of the thirty curiae that endowed a curule magistrate with his imperium.

Alizon, Linna had been an insignificant village serving the few needs of the poorly endowed, rugged Dales of the surrounding region, but it had escaped the hostilities ravaging the greater part of High Hallack.

Emily had not yet to learn that charity was in proportion to the means of the donor, and a gentle wish insensibly stole over her that Denbigh might in some way become more richly endowed with the good things of this world.

To this world so organized, endowed with a double force, active and passive, divided between light and darkness, moved by a living and intelligent Force, governed by Genii or Angels who preside over its different parts, and whose nature and character are more lofty or low in proportion as they possess a greater or less portion of dark matter,--to this world descends the soul, emanation of the ethereal fire, and exiled from the luminous region above the world.

Lastly the goddess endows him with trembling fear: that heroic son of Autonoe flees, astonished to find himself so swift a runner.

So, Sir Renny, the crown will endow you with an annual stipend which your parents will use for you as they deem fit.

There was a frithstool endowed with similar privileges at York Minster, and another at Durham.

Hugh told them the scabrous story about the loner so fabu5 lously endowed that he was known as the Gatha Entire.