different between endow vs impress

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English endowen, endouen, enduen, indouen, indw (“to provide with assets, a livelihood, or privileges; to bestow, grant; (figuratively) to favour; to endow”), from Anglo-Norman endouer, from Old French en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’) + douer (“to endow”) (from Latin d?t?re (present active infinitive of d?t? (“to endow”)); modern French douer). D?t? is derived from d?s (“dowry; endowment, gift”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh?- (“to give”)) + -? (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?da?/, /?n-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?da?/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Hyphenation: en?dow

Verb

endow (third-person singular simple present endows, present participle endowing, simple past and past participle endowed)

1. (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”).
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) Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.

   Synonym: begift
4. (transitive) Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something).

   Synonyms: bless, gift

Conjugation

Alternative forms

• indow (obsolete)

Derived terms

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Translations

References

Further reading

• financial endowment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Downe, Woden, downe, nowed, owned, woned

English

Etymology

From Middle English impressen, from Latin impressus, perfect passive participle of imprimere (“to press into or upon, stick, stamp, or dig into”), from in (“in, upon”) + premere (“to press”).

Pronunciation

• (verb) enPR: ?mpr?s?, IPA^(key): /?m?p??s/

  Rhymes: -?s

• (noun) enPR: ?m?pr?s, IPA^(key): /??mp??s/
• Hyphenation: im?press

Verb

impress (third-person singular simple present impresses, present participle impressing, simple past and past participle impressed)

1. (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.

2. (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.

3. (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).

4. (transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
5. To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
6. (figuratively) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.

   • impress the motives and methods of persuasion upon our own hearts, till we feel the force and power of them.

7. (transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.

8. (transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.

   • the second £5,000 imprest for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners

Synonyms

• (transitive: affect strongly and often favourably): make an impression on
• (intransitive: make an impression, be impressive): cut a figure
• (produce a vivid impression of):
• (mark or stamp (something) using pressure): imprint, print, stamp
• (compel (someone) to serve in a military force):: pressgang
• (seize or confiscate (property) by force):: confiscate, impound, seize, sequester

Translations

Noun

impress (plural impresses)

1. The act of impressing.
2. An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
   • 1908, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans, Norton 2005, p. 1330:

     We know that you were pressed for money, that you took an impress of the keys which your brother held […]

3. A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
4. An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
   • 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 187:

     Such admonitions, in the English of the Authorized Version, left an indelible impress on imaginations nurtured on the Bible […]

5. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.

   • we have God surveying the works of the creation, and leaving this general impress or character upon them

6. A heraldic device; an impresa.

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7. The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.

Translations

Derived terms

• impressed
• impression
• impressive
• impressively

Further reading

• impress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• impress in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• impress at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Persism, mispers, permiss, premiss, simpers