Endowed

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  endowed
       adj : provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by
             inheritance or nature); "an well-endowed college";
             "endowed with good eyesight"; "endowed by their Creator
             with certain unalienable rights" [ant: {unendowed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "endowed":
     accoutered, armed, blessed with, born for, catered, cut out for,
     dotal, dower, dowered, dowry, enfeoffed, equipped, fitted,
     fitted out, furnished, gifted, having, having and holding, heeled,
     holding, in possession of, invested, landed, landholding,
     landowning, made for, master of, occupying, outfitted, owning,
     pensionary, possessed of, possessing, prepared, propertied,
     property-owning, provided, purveyed, rigged, seized of,
     stipendiary, subsidiary, supplied, talented, tenured, with a flair,
     worth