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Definition of Endows
1. endow [v] - See also: endow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Endows
Literary usage of Endows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1889)
"In the picture at Holland House Sir Godfrey Kneller endows her ' with small and
pretty features, and hair and complexion as dark as her grandson's. ..."
2. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"endows lectureship in Union Theological Seminary. — Refuses to attend fifty-fifth
reunion of his class. — Statue to him proposed. ..."
3. Samuel F.B. Morse: His Letters and Journals by Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Edward Lind Morse (1914)
"endows lectureship in Union Theological Seminary. — Refuses to attend fifty-fifth
reunion of his class. — Statue to him proposed. ..."
4. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edvard Westermarck (1908)
"with a soul regards the visible thing itself as its body.2 homage." ' The animist
who endows an inanimate object How a being with such a body, ..."
5. Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh by James Stuart (1900)
"... Dublin— His Charities—His Writings—His Liberality to Dissenters—Succeeded by
Thomas Lindsay, who endows the Vicars Choral—Hugh Boulter Translated from ..."
6. The Flowers of History, Especially Such as Relate to the Affairs of Britain by Matthew Paris (1853)
"... is excommunicated—The family of William—He founds and endows monasteries—
Dies, and is succeeded by William Rufus. Coronation of king William the First, ..."
7. Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society by Hakluyt Society (1907)
"PACHACUTI INCA YUPANQUI endows THE HOUSE OF THE SUN WITH GREAT WEALTH. After Pachacuti
Inca Yupanqui had conquered the lands and nations mentioned above, ..."
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