endow

[En*dow·]

To endow is to furnish, but not with furniture. If you've been endowed with something, it means you've been given a gift most likely a gift that can't be returned or exchanged, like a sense of humor or athletic ability or trust.

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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.

Verb
furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got dowered"

Verb
give qualities or abilities to

v. t.
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.

v. t.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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Usage Examples

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.