To endow is to furnish, but not with furniture. If you've been endowed with something, it means you've been given a gift most likely a gift that can't be returned or exchanged, like a sense of humor or athletic ability or trust.
To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower;
Verb
furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got dowered"
Verb
give qualities or abilities to
v. t.
To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent
fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income
upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow
a public institution.
v. t.
To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a
gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by with, rarely by of; as,
man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or
benefits.
Endow
Endowing hospitals and almshouses.2.
To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower;
Usage Examples
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
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Other Usage ExamplesParents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.