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Endow vs. Endue — What's the Difference?

Endow vs. Endue — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Endow and Endue

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Endow

To provide with property, income, or a source of income.

Endue

To provide with a quality or trait; endow
"A being whom I myself had formed, and endued with life, had met me at midnight among the precipices of an inaccesible mountain" (Mary Shelley).

Endow

To equip or supply with a talent or quality
Nature endowed you with a beautiful singing voice.

Endue

To put on (a piece of clothing).

Endow

To imagine as having a usually favorable trait or quality
Endowed the family pet with human intelligence.
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Endue

(obsolete) To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb.

Endow

(Obsolete) To provide with a dower.

Endue

To take on, to take the form of.

Endow

(transitive) To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.

Endue

To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something).

Endow

(transitive) Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.

Endue

To invest (someone) with a given quality, property etc.; to endow.

Endow

(transitive) Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something).
She was endowed with a beautiful voice.

Endue

To invest.
Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
Endue them . . . with heavenly gifts.

Endow

To provide with a husband]]'s property or a given]] to a bride.

Endue

An older spelling of Endow.

Endow

To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.
Endowing hospitals and almshouses.

Endue

Give qualities or abilities to

Endow

To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); - followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.

Endow

Give qualities or abilities to

Endow

Furnish with an endowment;
When she got married, she got dowered

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