Definition of endowment

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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..

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Heir :: Heir (n.) One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues..
Self-conceit :: Self-conceit (n.) Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments.
Perfection :: Perfection (n.) A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence..
Principle :: Principle (n.) An original faculty or endowment.
Disendow :: Disendow (v. t.) To deprive of an endowment, as a church..
Peer :: Peer (n.) One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate..
Patrimony :: Patrimony (n.) Formerly, a church estate or 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..
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.
Faculty :: Faculty (n.) Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
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..
Benefit :: Benefit (n.) Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.
Spiritual :: Spiritual (a.) Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
Ungifted :: Ungifted (a.) Being without gifts, especially native gifts or endowments..
Grace :: Grace (n.) Inherent excellence; any endowment or characteristic fitted to win favor or confer pleasure or benefit.
Foundation :: Foundation (n.) A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment..
Disendowment :: Disendowment (n.) The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
Intelligence :: Intelligence (n.) The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment..
Chantry :: Chantry (n.) An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder..
Faculty :: Faculty (n.) Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul..
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