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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of endow.
  • adjective Pertaining to an endowment, as with an endowed chair at a university.

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  • adjective provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature)

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Examples

  • We have a long list of heavily decorated people (men and women) who have gone on to obtain endowed professorships and chairmanships at top 10 institutions.

    Stupid Summary Statement Candid Engineer 2008

  • The name endowed to us, succinctly says all about us.

    Archive 2007-08-01 bhags 2007

  • The name endowed to us, succinctly says all about us.

    The Name Game bhags 2007

  • I once heard an Italian lady speak of a young friend whom she described as endowed with every virtue under heaven, “ma,” she exclaimed, “povero disgraziato, ha ammazzato suo zio.”

    Erewhon 2003

  • And, I might add, when the need was felt to establish the Canada Council for the encouragement of arts and letters in our land, it was endowed from the estates of two outstanding Maritime-born captains of finance.

    Nova Scotia in the Canadian Scene 1957

  • The right to use the physical strength and the brains with which the workman has been endowed is his by a far higher title than any right of property.

    Some Imperial Problems 1919

  • I once heard an Italian lady speak of a young friend whom she described as endowed with every virtue under heaven, "ma," she exclaimed, "povero disgraziato, ha ammazzato suo zio."

    Erewhon; or, Over the range 1910

  • I once heard an Italian lady speak of a young friend whom she described as endowed with every virtue under heaven, "ma," she exclaimed, "povero disgraziato, ha ammazzato suo zio."

    Erewhon Samuel Butler 1868

  • The three-year term endowed position recognizes a junior faculty member who shows promise and productivity in the field of equine research.

    TheHorse.com News 2009

  • Schanzer's language bias is clearly demonstrated when he says that the "United Nations General Assembly partition plan ... endowed the Palestinian Arabs with a state that included an expanded Gaza strip, the West Bank, and much of the northern territory. [emphasis added]" How considerate for sure, to be "endowed" with only portions of your own homeland, while a minority of the population, immigrants at that, is given a majority of the land.

    Book Review - Hamas vs. Fatah 2008

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  • Fortunately for them however, Dragons seem to be endowed with good fortune, which saves them from making major mistakes and helps them to excel when they apply themselves correctly.

    January 3, 2011