How To Use Endowed In A Sentence

A private benefactor endowed the new Chair of Japanese Literature.
The state of Michigan has endowed three institutes to do research for industry.
The cross is endowed with a special meaning for Christians.
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights
Some lucky people are endowed with both brains and beauty.

Schanzer's language bias is clearly demonstrated when he says that the "United Nations General Assembly partition plan ... endowed the Palestinian Arabs with a state that included an expanded Gaza strip, the West Bank, and much of the northern territory. [emphasis added]" How considerate for sure, to be "endowed" with only portions of your own homeland, while a minority of the population, immigrants at that, is given a majority of the land. Book Review - Hamas vs. Fatah
De" was endowed with the meaning "moral" at the beginning of Chou Dynasty because of the development of "stare" and was thought as an inner quality that may belong to everybody.
It is hard to argue that the average rat has been endowed with conspicuous display ornaments by the preferences of ancestral females.
All men -- man and woman -- are created equal, -- equal in _attributes of body and mind_; (for _that_ is the only sense in which they could be _created_ equal;) _therefore_ they are endowed with right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, unalienable, except in their consent; _consequently_ such consent is essential to all rightful government; and, _finally_ and _irresistibly_, the people have supreme right to alter or abolish it, &c. Slavery Ordained of God
The province is also endowed with other non-traditional minerals including nickel, feldspar, emerald, limestone, granite, amethyst, sodalite and syenite.
We are not told that they are Scotch, endowed though they undoubtedly are with some of the canny and thrifty characteristics of the dwellers ayont the Tweed. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878
Maynooth which was also disendowed; but a sum of about £370,000 The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
They are endowed rather with the magic arts than with the power of the divine name. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
Nature has endowed her with great musical ability.
They strive for a final evaluation of life in terms of that eternity which is always present to them; they strive for a recognition of man's true place in nature, defined by the fact that he was endowed with the gift of reason; and they strive for a determination of the balance, so far attained, within themselves and their own lives, between man's beasthood and man's godhead. Nationhood Within the Empire
Her ex may have been well endowed but it was you she chose to be with. The Sun
The name endowed to us, succinctly says all about us. Archive 2007-08-01
The Pake Prize was endowed in 1983 in recognition of the achievements of George Pake, a research physicist and director of industrial research.
Something curious to the unaccustomed eye, these curling, clutching, digitated members raised above their usual range and common avocations, suddenly endowed with speech, and holding forth there in the silent upper air for the whole human economy. The Convert
She was endowed with intelligence and wit.
The Czechs are over-endowed with great composers, but the symphony that stirs them most comes from a minor master.
'catenary,' a line very simple in shape, but endowed with an algebraic symbol that has to resort to a kind of cabalistic number at variance with any sort of numeration, so much so that the unit refuses to express it, however much we subdivide the unit. The Life of the Spider
In Rachel the pride of the human mind is depicted; because they whom God has endowed with his benefits, for the most part are so elated, that they rage contumeliously against their neighbors. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
I hope we remain a nation that believes that all people are endowed by their Creator with the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Most were young, hardy, physically fit, courageous, fearless, bold, endowed with fortitude and endurance, and ever ready for a fight.
But though in theory every living man and woman is merely an ancestor or ancestress born again and therefore should be his or her equal, in practice they appear to admit that their forefathers of the remote _alcheringa_ or dream time were endowed with many marvellous powers which their modern reincarnations cannot lay claim to, and that accordingly these ancestral spirits were more to be reverenced, were in fact more worshipful, than their living representatives. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
The virtual citadel is endowed with the most important information concerning the history and the present of our bimillenary city.
Every size and color of the human spectrum was represented: young and old; men and women; black, white, and brown; bloated and emaciated; tattooed and unscarred; hairy and bald; well-endowed and not—all lying stiffly in the pale pallor of death. Law of Attraction
Part of what makes them so interesting is Mr. Gibbs's point of view, which was that of an unintellectual but highly intelligent playgoer who knew what he liked and was amply endowed with horse sense. He Knew What He Liked—Not Much
Africa, though endowed with a wealth of minerals and other resources, is the poorest continent in the world.
The former, who showed no mercy to those who were physically less endowed than them, sowed the seeds of injustice and naked brutishness that stalk the country today.
Public institutions, such as gymnasia, were endowed by wealthy benefactors, often royal, and supervised by public officials. 5. The Hellenistic World, to 30 B.C.E
Chen read the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable.’
The idea of theocracy of 'Power of King from God 'endowed the secular power with sanctitude and simultaneously the bondage which had never been given.
Hong Kong has been endowed with one of the finest natural harbours in the world.
By doing so and legislating the Qassas laws, the post-revolutionary state endowed fathers with the undisputed right of life and death over their children.
That plaguesome Polypheme was Captain Stubbard, begirt with a wife, and endowed with a family almost in excess of benediction, and dancing attendance upon Miss Dolly, too stoutly for his own comfort, in the hope of procuring for his own Penates something to eat and to sit upon. Springhaven
Since men are rational and egoistic, endowed with the right of property, the composition of output should be determined by consumer sovereignty.
Let no man's greatness be a bar to full utterance; but let temperance and charity -- duties peculiarly imperative when uttering derogatory truth -- be especially observed towards a resplendent suffering brother like Coleridge, suffering from his own weakness, but on that very account entitled to a tenderer consideration from those who are themselves endowed to feel and claim something more than common human affinity with a nature so large and so susceptive. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
Cicero, Plutarch, and others — that the atom of Epi - curus was endowed with a so-called clinamen of his invention. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
He will hold a new endowed professorial chair in cancer and stem cell biology.
They are endowed rather with the magic arts than with the power of the divine name. Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginning to 1715
She is above all patriotic and endowed with practical common sense. Times, Sunday Times
He was built as powerfully as a bull and it was common knowledge that he was generously endowed by nature that his martyred wife feared the marriage bed as unbelievers once feared the rack.
How he disendowed the Jail -- stopped at once the City drain; Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads
Her ex may have been well endowed but it was you she chose to be with. The Sun
In firm and lofty character, pain is mastered; in a character so little endowed with cool tenacious strength as Rousseau's, pain such as he endured was enough to account, not for his unsociality, which flowed from temperament, but for the bitter, irritable, and suspicious form which this unsociality now first assumed. Rousseau
The cross is endowed with a special meaning for Christians.
Your work contains many studs and hunks who are very well-endowed.
The state of Michigan has endowed three institutes to do research for industry.
The universe for a mechanician is a machine that requires an operator; for chemistry -- that fiendish employment of decomposing all things -- the world is a gas endowed with the power of movement. The Magic Skin
It has been endowed with a mystic quality.
What cut of trouser will make me look excessively well endowed?
The state religion was disendowed, persecuted, and abolished. The Promised Day Is Come
Everybody is endowed with the ability to make ethical judgments.
Chomsky explains this phenomenon by suggesting that human individuals are innately endowed with a deep structure grammar of language.
There is a satisfaction in turning out of doors a nephew or niece who is pecuniarily dependent, but when the youthful relative is richly endowed, the satisfaction is much diminished. Phineas Finn
Well-endowed chantries were able to employ specific chantry priests, and to provide a chantry chapel, whether free standing or by screening off a section of a church aisle, where their duties could be performed.
Only Shakspeare was endowed with that healthy equilibrium of nature whose point of rest was midway between the imagination and the understanding, -- that perfectly unruffled brain which reflected all objects with almost inhuman impartiality, -- that outlook whose range was ecliptical, dominating all zones of human thought and action, -- that power of verisimilar conception which could take away _Richard III_ from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
Nature has endowed her with beauty and intelligence.
The former America's Got Talent judge will play Dondo, a well-endowed former porn star who is now making major coin by producing sleazy girl-on-girl adult films. Keck's Exclusives: Hoff Lands Extra-Large Anarchy Role
Central and Eastern Europe had traditionally been the continent's breadbasket; the region was endowed with rich agricultural land, providing an economic logic for why it should continue to produce and export agricultural goods.
the area is slenderly endowed with natural resources
It is endowed with those characteristics such as particularity, diversity, rareness and culture.
I once heard an Italian lady speak of a young friend whom she described as endowed with every virtue under heaven, "ma," she exclaimed, "povero disgraziato, ha ammazzato suo zio. Erewhon; or, Over the range
So strange, so inexplicable a phenomenon, attested by eye-witnesses, corroborated by men of recognized standing, and acknowledged by government as well as unofficial historians among the people who had sworn undying hostility to the Bábí Faith, may be truly regarded as the most marvelous manifestation of the unique potentialities with which a Dispensation promised by all the Dispensations of the past had been endowed. Rothwell Polk: Baha'is Commemorate The Martyrdom Of The Bab
This old pundit was himself a distinguished mesmerist, and though generally unwilling to talk about what is termed occultism, on finding in me a man naturally endowed with the physical characteristics necessary to those pursuits, he had given me several valuable hints as to the application of my powers. Mr. Isaacs
We see him notebook in hand, endowed only with a nervy, unapplied curiosity.
He also urged people to remember that the country was very rich as it was endowed with enormous natural resources which remained unexploited.
Indeed, what would they give for a manager, preferably one working in tandem with a new owner endowed with coherent investment plans? Times, Sunday Times
To overcome factional strife, most Italian communes adopted the institution of podesta, a foreigner endowed with judicial and administrative powers. Steve Clemons: The Role of Podesta
This point beats and moves as though endowed with life, and from it two vein-ducts with blood in them trend in a convoluted course (as the egg substance goes on growing, towards each of the two circumjacent integuments); and a membrane carrying bloody fibres now envelops the yolk, leading off from the vein-ducts. The History of Animals
You are endowed with wealth, good health and a lively intellect.
The act released his physical energies without unfettering his will; his mind was still spellbound, but his powerful body and agile limbs, endowed with a blind, insensate life of their own, resisted stoutly and well.
Cranford" (PBS), a three-part "Masterpiece Classic" on life in an 1840s English village, addressed poverty, education, class, the role of women, child labor and more -- all in a work profoundly romantic and plentifully endowed with heartbreak, misprized love, matches made in heaven and the other sort. Live From New York, a Miracle
Eleven schools have awards endowed and several more indicated plans to seek endowments.
be endowed with sth to naturally have a particular feature, quality, etc: She was endowed with intelligence and wit.
She had endowed Marcus with the qualities she wanted him to possess.
A Chinese woman who claims she is endowed with a special gift that allows her to heal others was deported from Taiwan yesterday.
The metalware, ceramics, glassware, and carpets he depicted were highly prized and costly, and to add them to a painting endowed it with greater value through their physical presence.
The labium, which is divided into three joints, becomes flattened towards the tip, which is square, and ends in two thin membranous lobes, probably endowed with Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses
_alcheringa_ age to have been endowed with marvellous powers which they themselves do not possess; but they do not regard these ancestral spirits as deities, nor do they pray and sacrifice to them for help and protection. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
Prosperous companies erected their own guildhalls and endowed churches dedicated to the patron saint of their crafts, with chapels for their use.
For every dominant alpha individual, well endowed with strength, cleverness, and hence females, there are more who lose out, and therefore end up as resentful and unsuccessful betas, deltas, and zetas.
I believe that the United States of America was founded on certain bedrock principles - that all men are created equal and are endowed with inalienable rights. Sound Politics: Goldy Confesses...
A private benefactor endowed the new Chair of Japanese Literature.
As they rode home they passed a row of almshouses that Gifford had built and endowed for the widows of small Catholic tradesmen who had been left in destitute circumstances. Zoe: The History of Two Lives
Edifices for Divine worship, asylums for the poor and sick, monasteries and nunneries, universities and schools, cathedral and collegiate churches, chantries and preceptories, were founded and endowed in great numbers. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
In 1967 she established and endowed the Hilla yon Rebay Foundation to ‘foster, promote, and encourage the interest of the public in non-objective art.’
By his invention, an older and smaller instrument, the chalumeau, of eleven notes, without producible harmonics, was, by an artifice of raising a key to give access to the air column at a certain point, endowed with a harmonic series of eleven notes a twelfth higher. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
His leadership has been accompanied by immense popularity that has endowed him with significant power and political clout.
we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil
I spotted a well-endowed girl in the audience wearing a tight white T-shirt.
He founded and endowed the Abercromby Chair of Archaeology in the University of Edinburgh.
He wasn't very well endowed. The Sun
To connect this point of view with the classical theory of surfaces, such an abstract surface is embedded into R 3 and endowed with the Riemannian metric given by the first fundamental form.
Life at Court was in fact an endless pursuit of advantage, status, pensions, offices, and perquisites from those whom royal favour endowed with power to bestow them.
He wore, it is true, a new and jaunty hunting-shirt of dressed deer-skin, as yellow as gold, and fringed and furbelowed with shreds of the same substance, dyed as red as blood-root could make them; but was otherwise, to the view, a plain yeoman, endowed with those gifts of mind only which were necessary to his station, but with the virtues which are alike common to forest and city. Nick of the Woods
Lord Nuffield endowed educational and medical activities through the British United Provident Association, the Nuffield Foundation, and Nuffield College of Oxford University.
They endowed with high learning and working ability and get scholarship every year.
The osmotic adjustment endowed P. euphratica cell strong tolerance to salt stress.
The Church had been disestablished, and to some extent disendowed for many years, and at the present time the churches are maintained and the Clergy supported in different ways.
The rich businessman endowed the hospital with half his fortune.
The late Erik Bruhn, premier danseur and former artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada, posthumously endowed a competition to encourage promising young dancers.
To see the smile on the face of children who were disfigured, disendowed, left to themselves, and disowned by parents is just one wonderful thing. Tata Chairman's $5 Million Smiles
Some lucky people are endowed with both brains and beauty.
The piece of apparatus used for the purpose is endowed with a variety of names -- sp.g. spindle, hydrometer, areometer, salimeter, alcoholimeter, lactometer, and so on, according to the special liquid upon which it is intended to be used. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
The torrid heat of the vintage actually enriched lesser red appellations and endowed them with abundant fruit and body.
I do know that the story involves the legendary Phinn McCool, some American cowboys, a pooka a species of human Irish devils endowed with magical powers named Fergus MacPhellimey and a cellar full of leprechauns. Flann O'Brien: Tall Tales, Long Drink
Cicero, Plutarch, and others — that the atom of Epi - curus was endowed with a so-called clinamen of his invention. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
A very useful and very remarkable kind of prophecy indeed, this inductive prophecy appears to be; and the question arises, whether _a kind_, endowed of God with a faculty of seeing, which commands the future in so inclusive a manner, and with so near and sufficient an aim for the most important practical purposes, ought to be besieging Heaven for a _super_natural gift, and questioning the ancient seers for some vague shadows of the coming event, instead of putting this immediate endowment -- this 'godlike' endowment -- under culture. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
They endowed their children with remarkable names.
Midwives often performed a rudimentary christening ceremony for the all-too-many infants losing the fight for life soon after their birth. 94 Mary's status as a wealthy householder and a member of the royal family endowed her with significant thaumaturgical credentials, which easily qualified her to perform christening ceremonies. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
This new borough was also endowed with land, the income from which was used to pay the salaries of two burgesses at parliament.
He endowed a bed in a hospital.
Seen in this light natural law appears as a group of principles that tran - scend the law of different epochs and regrouping a set of norms endowed with a certain continuity by opposi - tion to the law of a given epoch, which is transitory and changing; for the law of any epoch is the inter - preter of the preceding one, whereas natural law is the law which outlives the times. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
How could she, an unendowed woman, replace such assistance? Two on a Tower
An amply endowed young woman in a spandex outfit was bent over him, slapping his cheek and breathlessly intoning, Are you alright? Death's Noisy Herald
The susceptible and energetic mind, fortunately for its possessor, is endowed with an elastic power, that enables it to rise again from the benumbing effects of those adverse strokes of fortune to which it is but too vulnerable. Memoirs of Mary Robinson
Beasts, which are destitute of our mental powers and acquirements; plants, which merely vegetate; stones, which are unendowed with sensation, are, in many respects, beings far more favored than man. A Philosophical Dictionary
But a fourth said he was'very well endowed'. The Sun
In the novel A Rose for Emily, the protagonist Emily is endowed with the images of protecter of the tradition, and its convict, beneficiary and revolter.
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have. Rene Descartes
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
The validity of contract is a force endowed by law to guarantee the performance of contract and strength of self-discipline of both contracting parties for realizing the aim of contract positively.
Anxiety is endowed with a certain character of indefiniteness and objectlessness; correct usage even changes its name when it has found an object, and in that case speaks instead of fear.
His 30-year career of hunting down society's dregs had apparently endowed him with the right to be both judge and jury.
endowed with good eyesight
Imperialism was endowed with the halo of divinity.
What would they have said to the proposal to create a monocrat _ad hoc_, an official permanently endowed by virtue of his office with the function of king-maker? The Critical Period of American History
She's endowed with intelligence as well as beauty.
Certainly sometimes sporting figures are perhaps in the excitement of the moment, endowed with almost godlike qualities.
These countries are comparatively well endowed with physical capital. Competing in a Global Economy
It darted at their throats, striking, coil-ing, and striking again; coiling and uncoiling with incredible rapidity and flying from leverage points of throats, of faces, of breasts like a spring endowed with consciousness, volition and hatred -- and those it struck stood rigid as stone with faces masks of inhuman fear and anguish; and those still unstricken fled. The Moon Pool
Al – Fazl and said to him, “I wish to have a slave-girl of passing beauty, perfect in loveliness, exquisite in symmetry and endowed with all praiseworthy gifts.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Until 1892 when the Cathedral was disestablished and disendowed, the affairs of St John's ran fairly smoothly.
We have only to suppose, the particles which are employed in crystallization, to be endowed with a tendency to form spiculae.
So a combination of austerity and tighter credit is in store, to the applause of the rating agencies, those infallible appraisers of risk that endowed securitized subprime mortgages with triple-A credit ratings. Borrowers of Euroland are Proving Einstein's Theory of Insanity Right
So Yahweh endowed the model the same type of true creativity he himself possessed.
Clients are greeted by a green metal sculpture of a well-endowed woman with bright blue hair. Christine Buckley: Houston Yard Art: Beer Cans, Fake Flowers and Wacky, Nonsensical Sculptures
South East Asia and parts of the Amazon jungle are similarly well-endowed, he says.
If we think teleologically, we see the unity of mankind, also in case of a polygenetic origin, in the unity of the metaphysical and teleological cause which called mankind into existence; and to rational beings, endowed with mind, as men are, the metaphysical bond is certainly stronger than the physical. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
The new Science was practically unendowed, it attracted few workers, and it was lost sight of during the decades of disaster. The Shape of Things to Come
It darted at their throats, striking, coiling, and striking again; coiling and uncoiling with incredible rapidity and flying from leverage points of throats, of faces, of breasts like a spring endowed with consciousness, volition and hatred -- and those it struck stood rigid as stone with faces masks of inhuman fear and anguish; and those still unstricken fled. The Moon Pool
To survive all of these perils you will need specially endowed, magical items.
In her will, she endowed a scholarship in the physics department.
Thus, we find descriptions of the professional nurses as “women of quality, sensible, kindly, home-makers, endowed with sympathy, brains, and tact.”
She didn't care what others may perceive of her looks at that instant, with her elegant black gown that lacked the final touch of a pair of footwear on her feet endowed with perfectly pedicured toes.
This disease which causes so much distress in life, is likewise, in its essential nature, an outbirth of psora, and, as regards its local character and its effects upon the constitution of the patient, it seems to be characterized by the same inflammatory and suppurative process as whitlow, and be endowed with a similar tendency to organic destruction. Apis Mellifica or, The Poison of the Honey-Bee, Considered as a Therapeutic Agent
The ambassador has endowed a $1 million public-service fellowships program.
The Smiths' gift will be used for endowed chairs, professorships and student scholarships.
It's the founding conviction of our country, that we're endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, the right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Quantitative Financial Innovation, endowed with a $2 million gift, will be awarded biennially to an individual or team with a published article that advances the field of quantitative financial analysis and asset management. Research Center, Prize to Foster Financial Analysis
St Augustine's was the first church in Ireland to be built by voluntary subscription since the Irish Church was disestablished and disendowed.
It was endowed with an endless capacity for multiplication and a remorseless urge to advance.
While 'unconcealment', the recapitulatory incidence of this third category, indicates general constellations of presence endowed with a certain duration, its anticipatory incidence, the 'event' scatters the general, disregards even the particular thing, and fragments any thought-content other than this or that presencing singularized by its distinct absencing. Enowning
Well endowed bovines are paraded in the ring in a simulacrum of a Mr Universe competition; absurd judges in bowler hats and mothy suits dribble over muscle and leather like old queens in a biker bar.
In the United States, well-endowed pinup girls, including Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe, donned eye-popping bikinis for photo shoots. The English Is Coming!
The founder endowed it with the church of St. Andrew, in Marrick, one carucate of land, tithes of his mill, multure of corn there, and he also gave the sisterhood liberty to grind their corn without paying multure.
Love is part of the nature of God, and humans were endowed with the ability to love as part of being ‘created in His image’.
Also in my bailiwick was the International Court of Justice, the judicial arm of the United Nations, housed in the Carnegie-endowed Peace Palace. Staying Tuned
A corporation is not endowed by its creator with any inalienable rights, and not only does a corporation have no moral interest in forgoing some profit in exchange for helping a person in their time of need, but it arguably has a duty not to do so, because of its fiduciary responsibility to stockholders. Matthew Yglesias » Promises and Penalties
Zambia has no reason to be poor since the country is endowed with natural resources - still untapped.
He thinks the relative silence on God/religion in the Constitution is over-ridden by the Declaration of Independence (because it contains the phrase "inalienable rights endowed by the creator") and he thinks the First Amendment religion clauses apply only to Christians and Jews (and maybe, but probably not, Muslims). Julie Ingersoll: Gitmo And Hypocrisy: Selectively Living By The Intentions Of The Founders And The Bible
In the United States, well-endowed pinup girls, including Jayne Mansfield and Marilyn Monroe, donned eye-popping bikinis for photo shoots. The English Is Coming!
In her will, she endowed a scholarship in the physics department.
The church of the West Indies was disestablished and disendowed in 1868.
He granted several corrodies to persons who endowed his abbey. The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral
This God endowed him with these gifts since he passed the test, and showed love.
In the end, Mr Boehner left the president waiting at the altar-but not before Mr Obama's eagerness for the bargain had endowed the idea of haggling over the debt ceiling with a legitimacy it did not deserve. The Economist: Daily news and views
It is natural for a metal, which is also endowed with a number of other qualities, like being divisible, portable, cognizable, etc., to be the general medium of exchange.
Cats have been endowed with a magical ability to detect the overweening ambitions of dictators, many of whom have consequently been accused of ailurophobia on the flimsiest evidence.
His glance rested on his son Draper, seated opposite him behind a barrier of Georgian silver and orchids; but his words were addressed to his secretary who, stylograph in hand, had turned from the seductions of a mushroom souffle in order to jot down, for the Sunday Investigator, an outline of his employer's views and intentions respecting the newly endowed Orlando G. Spence College for Missionaries. The Blond Beast
Church, which had received during the Reformation the lands and moneys of the Catholic Church, was disestablished and nominally disendowed by the Act of 1869, but so liberal were the compensations allowed that they amounted practically almost to a re-endowment. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
He is a self-employed professor who endowed his own chair and granted himself tenure.
The leaders of society endowed chantry priests, who were permanently employed to say a daily mass for the soul of the chantry founder and his or her relations.
be endowed with sth to naturally have a particular feature, quality, etc: She was endowed with intelligence and wit.
The grant will establish an endowed faculty position for the department's three-year diploma course.
The physician and accoucheur assure us that Renee is now quite out of danger; and as she is proving an admirable nurse — Nature has endowed her so generously! — my father and I are able to give free rein to our joy. Letters of Two Brides
You have also been endowed with the ability to command and control.
From his Indian half he had his love of tramping which made him choose the wandering trade of trunk pedler; his French half made him a good trader and talker; while his Yankee half endowed him with a universal Yankee trait, a "handiness," which showed in scores of gifts and accomplishments and knacks that made him as warmly greeted everywhere as were his attractive trunks. Home Life in Colonial Days
When you consider how beautiful the car park is now, and the wonderful beach that nature has endowed us with, how can these people come along and spoil the area with their rubbish?
And, I might add, when the need was felt to establish the Canada Council for the encouragement of arts and letters in our land, it was endowed from the estates of two outstanding Maritime-born captains of finance. Nova Scotia in the Canadian Scene
Hong Kong has been endowed with one of the finest natural harbors in the world.
So strange, so inexplicable a phenomenon, attested by eye-witnesses, corroborated by men of recognized standing, and acknowledged by government as well as unofficial historians among the people who had sworn undying hostility to the BÃ¡bÃ Faith, may be truly regarded as the most marvelous manifestation of the unique potentialities with which a Dispensation promised by all the Dispensations of the past had been endowed. Rothwell Polk: Baha'is Commemorate The Martyrdom Of The Bab
Endowed as he was with superb powers of criticism, an impressively hard-headed acumen, he strewed his letters with witty, biting obiter scripts.
This I approve; but of the other two I resolve with Salisburiensis, caeteris paribus, both rich alike, endowed alike, majori miseria deformis habetur quam formosa servatur, I had rather marry a fair one, and put it to the hazard, than be troubled with a blowze; but do as thou wilt, I speak only of myself. Anatomy of Melancholy
Thus a new saeculum might begin at any time, and might be endowed with special religious significance by certain solemn ceremonies; in this way the people might be persuaded that a new leaf, so to speak, had been turned over in their history: that all past evil, material or moral, had been put away and done with (_saeculum condere_), and a new period entered on of innocence and prosperity. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
The hospital was endowed with meadow-land stretching eastwards to the river.
Despite the stark imagery from the famines of the 1980s, it is well endowed with large areas of cultivatable land as well as mountain ranges, swamps and rain forests.
Five more endowed chairs are proposed to complement the Goldring Chair in Canadian Studies.
For those endowed with qualities such as sincerity, perseverance and competence, success is never a mirage.
Abutting onto the endosperm from one side is the scutellum, a single modified leaf that absorbs, digests, and conducts food from the endosperm to the embryo, or “germ,” which is at the base of the fruit, and which is also well endowed with oil, enzymes, and flavor. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
I spotted a well-endowed girl in the audience wearing a tight white T-shirt.
The gift to his alma mater is part of a seven-year, $1 billion fund-raising campaign that the school publicly announced last week to help boost its endowment, fund the increasing need for scholarship money, redevelop its Livingston campus and more than double the number of endowed chairs to attract and retain faculty. A Scarlet Knight Rescues Rutgers
Perhaps that early brush with death endowed the villagers with a greater than normal appreciation for the past.
It is to be remembered, however, that the Church so restored was a disendowed and humbled Church, from which the State might be thought to have little to fear.
Being such a linkman endowed Zhou with the privilege of freely passing through the pits and team buildings and exploring the inner organization of the team.
([Greek: teras] is Cicero's own word), as preternaturally endowed, in this quality of working power. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
His epigrams (most of which are contained in _The Scourge of Folly_, undated, like others of his books) are by no means despicable; the Welsh ancestors, whom he did not fail to commemorate, seem to have endowed him with some of that faculty for lampooning and "flyting" which distinguished the Celtic race. A History of Elizabethan Literature

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