Word Meanings - REENDOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To endow again.
Related words: (words related to REENDOW)
- AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - AGAINSAY
To gainsay. Wyclif. - ENDOWMENT
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, - AGAIN
again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, - AGAINST
1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in - AGAIN; AGAINS
Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer. - AGAINWARD
Back again. - ENDOWER
To endow. Waterhouse. - AGAINBUY
To redeem. Wyclif. - ENDOW
1. 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 - THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer. - REENDOW
To endow again. - DISENDOWMENT
The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments. disendowment of the Irish Church. G. B. Smith. - DISENDOW
To deprive of an endowment, as a church. Gladstone.