Word of the Day - Endow

endow

Pronunciation: /ɛnˈdaʊ//ɪnˈdaʊ/
verb
[WITH OBJECT]
1 Give or bequeath an income or property to (a person or institution)
1.1 Establish (a university post, annual prize, etc.) by donating the funds needed to maintain it.
2 Provide with a quality, ability, or asset.
2.1 be endowed informal... [overly descriptive text bowdlerized]

Origin
Late
Middle English (also in the sense ‘provide a dower or dowry’; formerly
also as indow): from legal Anglo-Norman French endouer, from en- ‘in,
towards’ + Old French douer ‘give as a gift’ (from Latin dotare: see
dower).

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David's father endowed him with a snow shovel. It was more suited to a grown man, but David
knew he could not complain. Shovelling a path to the barn was his extra winter chore along with collecting the eggs every morning and mucking out the horse stalls before breakfast and school.