Definition of "endow" []

• To provide with property, income, or a source of income. (verb-transitive)
• To equip or supply with a talent or quality: Nature endowed you with a beautiful singing voice. (verb-transitive)
• To imagine as having a usually favorable trait or quality: endowed the family pet with human intelligence. (verb-transitive)
• Obsolete To provide with a dower. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "We have (with Tregelles) avoided both by rendering the word "endow," which includes "power," and whatever other gifts were necessary for their mission."
• "Interestingly, modern technology allows us to do things like "endow" an application with SaaS with very little intrusiveness whereas in the past, this may have required a new stack."
• "h an empty name endow'd his fpoufe, jr Tullia, who, fome authors feign, er her father's corpfe a rumbling wain t more guilty numerous wains did drive"