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uniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution. Endowing hospitals and almshouses. Bp. Stillingfleet.

To endow. [Obs.] Waterhouse.

n institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college.

To deprive of an endowment, as a church. Gladstone.

The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments. [The] disendowment of the Irish Church. G. B. Smith.

To endow again.

Addison. His acquirements by industry were . . . enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. Hayward.

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force…

The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties.

To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton.

Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively. The admirable structure of animate bodies. Bentley.

Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous. "Animated sounds." Pope. "Animated bust." Gray. "Animated descriptions." Lewis.

The belief that inanimate objects and the phenomena of nature are endowed with personal life or a living soul; also, in an extended sense, the belief in the existence of soul or spirit apart from matter. Tylor.

Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent.

An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson.

Natural advantaged; endowments; accomplishments. [R.] "The benefits of your own country." Shak. Benefit of clergy. (Law) See under Clergy.

A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.

An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.

Provided with, or surrounded by, cilia; as, a ciliate leaf; endowed with vibratory motion; as, the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe.

Endowed with fancy or imagination. [Obs.] He was . . . pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit. Knolles.