Definition of endowment

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Endowment (n.) That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college..

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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..
Chantry :: Chantry (n.) An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder..
Qualified :: Qualified (a.) Fitted by accomplishments or endowments.
Ungifted :: Ungifted (a.) Being without gifts, especially native gifts or endowments..
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.
Faculty :: Faculty (n.) Special mental endowment; characteristic knack.
Induement :: Induement (n.) The act of induing, or state of being indued; investment; endowment..
Disendow :: Disendow (v. t.) To deprive of an endowment, as a church..
Endowment :: Endowment (n.) That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college..
Indowment :: Indowment (n.) See Endowment.
Endowment :: Endowment (n.) The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support..
Benefit :: Benefit (n.) Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.
Heir :: Heir (n.) One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues..
Dower :: Dower (n.) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
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)..
Will :: Will (v.) The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide to do or not to do; the power or faculty of preferring or selecting one of two or more objects.
Peer :: Peer (n.) One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate..
Self-conceit :: Self-conceit (n.) Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments.
Patrimony :: Patrimony (n.) Formerly, a church estate or endowment..
Dote :: Dote (n.) Natural endowments.
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