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endowment|ɛnˈdaʊmənt|
Also 6–8 indow(e)ment.
[f. endow v. + -ment.]
1. The action of endowing, in various senses.
c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. (1714) 78 We have found undoubtydly what maner of Revenuz, is beste for the Endowment of the Crowne. 1494Fabyan, iv. lxix. 47 Of this firste Indowement of the Churche. 1641Termes de la Ley 135 Indowment..signifies properly the giving or assuring of dower to a woman. 1642Perkins Prof. Bk. v. §315. 139 Possession of the freehold by the endowment is vested in, etc. 1852Lever Daltons II. 259 You are anxious about the endowment of the Ursulines, and so am I.
2. concr. The property or fund with which a society, institution, etc. is endowed.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxix. (1611) 429 The goods of the Church are the sacred indowments of God. 1649Bp. Reynolds Hosea i. 39 O therefore that every Parish had an endowment fit for a learned, laborious, and worthy Pastor. 1757Burke Abridgm. Eng. Hist. Wks. X. 411 Alms, and endowments, the usual fruits of a late penitence. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. II. 501 The estates of benefices..were applied to increasing the endowments of parish churches and schools. 1870Daily News 16 Feb., The sacrifice of the endowments of the Irish Church.
†3.
a. Commercial advantage, profit.
b. Property, possessions. Obs. rare.
1615G. Sandys Trav. 12 The Lentiske tree, which is wel-nigh onely proper to Sio doth giue it the greatest renowne and endowment. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxxiii, Basil Olifant, who had agreed to take the field if he were ensured possession of these women's worldly endowments.
4. A ‘gift’, power, capacity, or other advantage with which a person is endowed by nature or fortune.
c1610Sir J. Melvil Mem. (1735) 12 The King's rare natural Endowments. 1611Shakes. Cymb. i. iv. 6 Though the Catalogue of his endowments had bin tabled by his side. 1672Dryden Assignation i. i. Dram. Wks. 1725 III. 296 A man of my extraordinary Indowments. 1710Prideaux Orig. Tithes ii. 69 No Endowments of the Mind..were at all necessary. 1847Emerson Repr. Men, Shaks. Wks. (Bohn) I. 362 With this wisdom of life is the equal endowment of imagination and of lyric power. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. xv. (1873) 428 All corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection.
5. attrib. and Comb.: (sense 2) endowment assurance, insurance, a form of life insurance providing for the payment of an endowment or fixed sum to the insured person at a specified date, or (usually) to his representatives on his death, should that take place before the specified date of payment; endowment (insurance) policy, a policy which provides for payment according to the above method; so endowment plan; endowment mortgage, a mortgage that is linked to an endowment policy such that the capital is repaid only when the policy matures or on the death of the borrower.
1865Nation (N.Y.) I. 157 Endowment Assurance Policies..are issued to persons desirous of making provisions for advanced life. 1871Harper's Mag. Aug. 477 Benjamin P. Gunn..explaining the endowment plan to his guide. 1880Encycl. Brit. XIII. 168/2 Endowment-Assurances. 1889Cent. Dict., Endowment policy, or, in full, Endowment insurance policy. 1895E. Carroll Princ. Finance 298 Insurance is divided into Accident and Casualty Insurance, Endowment Insurance, Fire Insurance, Life Insurance, Marine Insurance, etc. 1898Westm. Gaz. 5 Feb. 6/3 The Equity and Law seems to be the only office to which the public should take their endowment assurance business. 1898Daily News 26 Feb. 8/1 The favourite system of insurance is the endowment plan, is it not? 1962Which? June 183/1 In this report, we compare non-profit and with-profits endowment assurance policies. 1965Building Societies Inst. Q. Apr. 101 The paragraphs on endowment mortgages are rather confused and incomplete. 1986What Mortgage June 14/3 An endowment mortgage is automatically linked to an endowment assurance policy provided by an insurance company. |