Definition of endowment

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Endowment (n.) The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support..

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Disendowment :: Disendowment (n.) The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
Talent :: Talent (v. t.) Intellectual ability, natural or acquired; mental endowment or capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in business, art, or the like; faculty; a use of the word probably originating in the Scripture parable of the talents (Matt. xxv. 14-30)..
Foundation :: Foundation (n.) A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment..
Faculty :: Faculty (n.) Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
Foundation :: Foundation (n.) That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity..
Qualified :: Qualified (a.) Fitted by accomplishments or endowments.
Indowment :: Indowment (n.) See Endowment.
Self-conceit :: Self-conceit (n.) Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments.
Disendow :: Disendow (v. t.) To deprive of an endowment, as a church..
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..
Endowment :: Endowment (n.) The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support..
Spiritual :: Spiritual (a.) Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
Heir :: Heir (n.) One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues..
Peer :: Peer (n.) One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate..
Perfection :: Perfection (n.) A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence..
Endowment :: Endowment (n.) That which is given or bestowed upon the person or mind; gift of nature; accomplishment; natural capacity; talents; -- usually in the plural.
Ungifted :: Ungifted (a.) Being without gifts, especially native gifts or endowments..
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..
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..
Patrimony :: Patrimony (n.) Formerly, a church estate or endowment..
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