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Definition of Endowed
1. Adjective. Provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature). "Endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights"
Definition of Endowed
1. Verb. (past of endow) ¹
2. Adjective. Pertaining to an endowment, as with an endowed chair at a university. ¹
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Definition of Endowed
1. endow [v] - See also: endow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Endowed
Literary usage of Endowed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"(2) Of what endowed.—We are next to inquire, of what a wife may be endowed.
And she is now by law entitled to be endowed of all lands and tenements, ..."
2. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1873)
"Of what estate the wife can be endowed; (2.) How dower will be defeated ; (3.
... (1) Of what Estate the Wife may be endowed. — The husband must have had ..."
3. Library Journal by Charles Ammi Cutter, American Library Association, Library Association (1896)
"Now In contrast, can you not call to mind places with endowed free libraries that
otherwise ... But you say an endowed library falls short of the mark, ..."
4. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, A Commentary by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1823)
"Of what castle or mansion-house the wife shall be 'endowed, and of what not, ...
Where the wife shull not be endowed of the seisin of her husband had by ..."
5. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary ...by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Francis Hargrave, Charles Butler, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1853)
"298. and which the heire of the husband shall inherit, yet the wife shall not be
endowed. As if the husband [»] maketh a lease for life of certaine lands, ..."
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