[ɛnˈdaʊ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- provide with a quality, ability, or asset
(e.g: he was endowed with tremendous physical strength)

- give or bequeath an income or property to (a person or institution)
(e.g: he endowed the Church with lands)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (also in the sense ‘provide a dower or dowry’; formerly also as indow): from legal Anglo-Norman French endouer, from en- ‘in, towards’ + Old French douer ‘give as a gift’ (from Latin dotare: see dower)