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Endowment :: Endowment (n.) That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college..

Intelligence :: Intelligence (n.) The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment..

Faculty :: Faculty (n.) Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.

Heir :: Heir (n.) One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues..

Chantry :: Chantry (n.) An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder..

Induement :: Induement (n.) The act of induing, or state of being indued; investment; endowment..

Disendowment :: Disendowment (n.) The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.

Foundation :: Foundation (n.) A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment..

Principle :: Principle (n.) An original faculty or endowment.

Perfection :: Perfection (n.) A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence..

Indowment :: Indowment (n.) See Endowment.

Dower :: Dower (n.) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.

Gift :: Gift (v. t.) Some quality or endowment given to man by God; a preeminent and special talent or aptitude; power; faculty; as, the gift of wit; a gift for speaking..

Disestablishment :: Disestablishment (n.) The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament..

Spiritual :: Spiritual (a.) Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.

Dotation :: Dotation (n.) Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation..

Talent :: Talent (v. t.) Intellectual ability, natural or acquired; mental endowment or capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in business, art, or the like; faculty; a use of the word probably originating in the Scripture parable of the talents (Matt. xxv. 14-30)..

Grace :: Grace (n.) Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit.

Qualification :: Qualification (n.) That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success; an enabling quality or circumstance; requisite capacity or possession..

Will :: Will (v.) The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide to do or not to do; the power or faculty of preferring or selecting one of two or more objects.

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