Endow
King James Dictionary [1]
Endow', L. dos, doto, or a different Celtic root.
1. To furnish with a portion of goods or estate, called dower to settle a dower on, as on a married woman or widow.
A wife is by law entitled to be endowed of all lands and tenements, of which her husband was seized in fee simple or fee tail during the coverture.
2. To settle on, as a permanent provision to furnish with a permanent fund of property as, to endow a church to endow a college with a fund to support a professor. 3. To enrich or furnish with any gift, quality or faculty to indue. Man is endowed by his maker with reason.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( 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.
(2): ( 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.
