Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature);
- Example: "a well-endowed college"- Example: "endowed with good eyesight"- Example: "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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Endowing hospitals and almshouses. --Bp.
Stillingfleet.
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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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
endowed
adj 1: provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by
inheritance or nature); "a well-endowed college";
"endowed with good eyesight"; "endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights" [ant: unendowed]