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indow
English
Verb
indow (third-person singular simple present indows, present participle indowing, simple past and past participle indowed)
- Obsolete spelling of endow
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endow
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)
- (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”).
- (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.
- (transitive) Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.
- Synonym: begift
- (transitive) Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something).
- Synonyms: bless, gift
Conjugation
Alternative forms
- indow (obsolete)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
References
Further reading
- financial endowment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Downe, Woden, downe, nowed, owned, woned
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