endower

English

Etymology 1

endow +‎ -er

Noun

endower (plural endowers)

1. One who endows.

Etymology 2

Compare Old French endouairer.

Verb

endower (third-person singular simple present endowers, present participle endowering, simple past and past participle endowered)

1. To endow.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “endower”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• drownee, reendow

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• endowre

Etymology

From en- +‎ dower.

Noun

endower

1. (rare) Money granted as to support an individual.

References

• “endǒuē̆r (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-12.