Endow

Quick meaning: Endow is a verb meaning (transitive, followed by with, or rarely by of) To enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.

Meaning

(transitive, followed by with, or rarely by of) To enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, usually in the passive voice) To naturally furnish (with something).
2. (transitive) To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
3. (transitive, archaic or obsolete) To provide with a dower (“the portion that a widow receives from her deceased husband's property”) or a dowry (“property given to a bride”).

Example Sentences

Father Omnipotent, our Lord and only Redeemer, / […] with thy grace my ſpirit endow: […]

Wherby we bith lerned þat it shalnot only be goode to owre prince, but also to vs selff, that he be well indowed; ffor ellis the patriarke wolde not haue made such a trety.

Vpon her eyelids many Graces ſate, / Vnder the ſhadow of her euen browes, / VVorking belgardes [beautiful looks], and amorous retrate [portrait], / And euerie one her with a grace endowes: […]

Men began to build Churches on their own Grounds, at their own Charges, and to endow theſe; and they were naturally the Maſters, and in the true Signification of the Roman word, the Patrons of them.

Word Forms

• endows
• endowing
• endowed

Synonyms for endow

Depending on context, synonyms include begift, endue, clothe, bless, gift, empower.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dower, gift, invest, empower, indue, endue.

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