0 present participle of endow
1 to give a large amount of money to pay for creating a college, hospital, etc. or to provide an income for it:
By endowing wine with these attributes, the wine poem appropriates the spiritual realm and reveals its full character.
The house succeeded in endowing three offspring in each generation, with the sole exception of the second heir whose only surviving child was a girl.
First, in most traditionally patrilineal communities there is a strong male opposition to endowing women, especially daughters, with land.
Perhaps we should look at other ways of endowing the distinction with moral significance.
Rather than endowing regions with greater bargaining power, large population seemed to work against a region's fiscal interests.
The more intrusive strategy aims at endowing addressees with additional problem-solving modes.
It is an act of sublimation, by which man overcomes his utterly chaotic experience of reality by endowing it with meaning.
His book riddle focuses on the book as an object, endowing it with physical attributes.
