endow
verb
[ ɪnˈdaʊ ]
• provide with a quality, ability, or asset.
• "he was endowed with tremendous physical strength"
Similar:
provide,
supply,
furnish,
equip,
invest,
give,
present,
favour,
bless,
grace,
award,
gift,
confer,
bestow,
enrich,
arm,
endue,
• give or bequeath an income or property to (a person or institution).
• "he endowed the Church with lands"
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).
