ENDOW', L. dos, doto, or a different Celtic root.
1. To furnish with a portion of goods or estate, called dower to settle a dower on, as on a married woman or widow.
A wife is by law entitled to be endowed of all lands and tenements, of which her husband was seized in fee simple or fee tail during the coverture.
2. To settle on, as a permanent provision to furnish with a permanent fund of property as, to endow a church to endow a college with a fund to support a professor.
3. To enrich or furnish with any gift, quality or faculty to indue. Man is endowed by his maker with reason.