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Webster 1913 Edition

Endowment

En-dow′ment

,
Noun.
1.
The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.
2.
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
.
3.
That which is given or bestowed upon the person or mind; gift of nature; accomplishment; natural capacity; talents; – usually in the plural.
His early
endowments
had fitted him for the work he was to do.
I. Taylor.

Webster 1828 Edition

Endowment

ENDOW'MENT

,
Noun.
The act of settling dower on a woman, or of settling a fund or permanent provision for the support of a parson or vicar, or of a professor, &c.
1.
That which is bestowed or settled on; property, fund or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as the endowments of a church, of a hospital, or of a college.
2.
That which is given or bestowed on the person or mind by the creator; gift of nature; any quality or faculty bestowed by the creator. Natural activity of limbs is an endowment of the body; natural vigor of intellect is an endowment of the mind. Chatham and Burke, in Great Britain, and Jan, Ellsworth and Hamilton, in America, possessed uncommon endowments of mind.

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