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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Disendow :: Disendow (v. t.) To deprive of an endowment, as a church..
Foundation :: Foundation (n.) That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity..
Peer :: Peer (n.) One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate..
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..
Disendowment :: Disendowment (n.) The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
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.) That which is given or bestowed upon the person or mind; gift of nature; accomplishment; natural capacity; talents; -- usually in the plural.
Dower :: Dower (n.) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
Foundation :: Foundation (n.) A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment..
Dowry :: Dowry (n.) A gift; endowment.
Benefit :: Benefit (n.) Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.
Dotation :: Dotation (n.) Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation..
Induement :: Induement (n.) The act of induing, or state of being indued; investment; endowment..
Heir :: Heir (n.) One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues..
Dote :: Dote (n.) Natural endowments.
Ungifted :: Ungifted (a.) Being without gifts, especially native gifts or endowments..
Self-conceit :: Self-conceit (n.) Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments.
Disestablishment :: Disestablishment (n.) The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament..
Patrimony :: Patrimony (n.) Formerly, a church estate or endowment..
Indowment :: Indowment (n.) See Endowment.
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