Definition of "dowered" [dow•ered]

• Simple past tense and past participle of dower. (verb)

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• "At any rate, as the years pass, let us on this side of the water be more and more in the one great family, looking to the time when the young Canadian will win the crown of wild olive, that emblem of sweet honour and gray rest, that which is given as a reward and as a guerdon to gallant youth who stands dowered from the night and splendid for the day as the pride and hope of mankind."
• "He did not wait, but dowered them with a hundred thousand each, which sums lay in the Bank of Hawaii, drawing interest and awaiting their wedding day."
• "And now he, Ah Chun, the peasant, dowered his daughter with three hundred thousand years of such toil."