Definition of endowment

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Endowment (n.) The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support..

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Benefit :: Benefit (n.) Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.
Patrimony :: Patrimony (n.) Formerly, a church estate or endowment..
Grace :: Grace (n.) Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit.
Peer :: Peer (n.) One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate..
Intelligence :: Intelligence (n.) The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment..
Perfection :: Perfection (n.) A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence..
Endowment :: Endowment (n.) The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support..
Heir :: Heir (n.) One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues..
Dotation :: Dotation (n.) Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation..
Dote :: Dote (n.) Natural endowments.
Indowment :: Indowment (n.) See Endowment.
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..
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..
Endowment :: Endowment (n.) That which is given or bestowed upon the person or mind; gift of nature; accomplishment; natural capacity; talents; -- usually in the plural.
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..
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)..
Foundation :: Foundation (n.) That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity..
Disendow :: Disendow (v. t.) To deprive of an endowment, as a church..
Qualified :: Qualified (a.) Fitted by accomplishments or endowments.
Foundation :: Foundation (n.) A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment..
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