What is the meaning of ENDOW. Phrases containing ENDOW
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Acronyms & AI meanings
Disarmament Demobilization and Reinsertion
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p. pr. & vb. n.
of Endow
n.
Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments.
n.
To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death.
n.
One who endows.
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Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
n.
A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices.
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Being without gifts, especially native gifts or endowments.
v. t.
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.
imp. & p. p.
of Endow
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Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.
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One of the changes of assimilation, in which proteid matter which has been transformed, and made a part of the tissue or tissue cells, is endowed with life, and thus enabled to manifest the phenomena of irritability, contractility, etc.
v. t.
To endow.
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To endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to make alive; as, vitalized blood.
n.
That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college.
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A stanza, verse, or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm.
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To endow with the scepter, or emblem of authority; to invest with royal authority.
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To endow with a widow's right.
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Endowed with the power of willing; as, man is a voluntary agent.
v. t.
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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The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide to do or not to do; the power or faculty of preferring or selecting one of two or more objects.
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