different between endow vs license

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)

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References

Further reading

• financial endowment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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

English

Alternative forms

• (British, Canadian, Australian, Irish, South African and New Zealand English) licence (noun)

Etymology

From Old French licence, from Latin licentia (“license”), from licens, present participle of licere (“to be allowed, be allowable”); compare linquere, Ancient Greek ????? (leíp?, “leave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la?s?ns/
• Hyphenation: li?cense

Noun

license (countable and uncountable, plural licenses)

1. A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit.
2. The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software.
3. Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech).
4. Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint.
5. Short for driver's license.

Usage notes

• In British English, Canadian English, Australian English, Irish English, South African English and New Zealand English the noun is spelt licence and the verb is license.
• The spelling licence is not used for either part of speech in the United States.

Derived terms

Related terms

• licensure
• licentious

Translations

Verb

license (third-person singular simple present licenses, present participle licensing, simple past and past participle licensed)

1. Authorize officially.

2. (transitive) (applied to a piece of intellectual property)
   1. To give formal authorization to use.
   2. To acquire authorization to use, usually in exchange for compensation.
3. (linguistics, transitive) To permit (as grammatically correct).

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Further reading

• license in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• license in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Licence in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• selenic, silence