Crossword clues for endowing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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. 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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of endow English)
Usage examples of "endowing".
In the early part of her career, when many female characters were portrayed as helpless women in jeopardy, Davis was endowing her women with intelligence and stamina rather than mere beauty and pluck.
The leaves and powdered bark are very effective for all healing and for endowing lasting good health.
Each person can make a few very rough stitches, endowing each with a spoken hope or prayer for the sick person and visualising the stitches filled with light.
Suffering could not mask her beauty, endowing it instead, by some strange law of emotional compensation, with an incongruous, almost sacrilegious radiance.
He was sorry for what he had done, he could not tolerate a third person's having seen it, thus endowing it with a totally different meaning.
Having affirmed this, dear Adso, I cannot convince myself that God chose to introduce such a foul being into creation without also endowing it with some virtues.
And at last divine Providence is endowing us with a radiant certitude.
Whatever may have been the case in years gone by, the true use for the imaginative faculty of modern times is to give ultimate vivification to facts, to science, and to common lives, endowing them with the glows and glories and final illustriousness which belong to every real thing, and to real things only.