endowedst

English

Verb

endowedst

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past indicative of endow
   • 1762, Benj[amin] Stillingfleet, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Natural History, Husbandry, and Physick. To Which Is Added the Calendar of Flora., 2nd edition, London: […] R. and J. Dodsley, […]; S. Baker, […]; and T. Payne, […], page 32:

     Laſtly that amidſt ſo many viciſſitudes of fortune, to which I have been expoſed, amongſt all the goods, i ſay, and evils, the joyfull and gloomy, the pleaſing, and diſagreeable circumſtances of life, thou endowedſt me with an equal, conſtant, manly, and ſuperior ſpirit on every occaſion.

   • 1809, A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the Protestant Church, of the United Brethren, Manchester: […] R. & W. Dean, page 10:

     I lay in fetters groaning, / Thou cam’st to set me free; / My shame I was bemoaning, / With grace thou clothedst me; / Thou raisedst me to glory, / Endowedst me with bliss, / Which is not transitory, / As worldly grandeur is.

   • 1820, S[olomon] Piggott, Guide to the Family Altar; or, A Series of Prayers for Families and Schools, […], London: […] Simpkin and Marshal, […], page 6:

     Thou didst breathe into man a living soul—the image of thyself; endowedst him with powers and faculties to serve and glorify Thee, and gavest him a disposition to please Thee.

   • a. 1847, Thomas Chalmers, edited by William Hanna, Posthumous Works of the Rev. Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D., volume V, […] for Thomas Constable by Sutherland and Knox, Edinburgh. Hamilton, Adams, and Co., London, published 1848, page 45:

     In old times Thou manifestedst Thyself in an extraordinary way, even to those in the humble and domestic walks of life—as to Rachel and Rebekah, whom Thou endowedst with a certain measure of prophetic illumination.