Inflected forms: en·dowed, en·dow·ing, en·dows 1. To provide with property, income, or a source of income. 2a. To equip or supply with a talent or quality: Nature endowed you with a beautiful singing voice.b. To imagine as having a usually favorable trait or quality: endowed the family pet with human intelligence.3.Obsolete To provide with a dower.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English endowen, from Anglo-Norman endouer : Old French en-, intensive pref.; see en–1 + Old French douer, to provide with a dowry (from Latin dtre, from ds, dt-, dowry; see d- in Appendix I).
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