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单词 re-endow
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re-endowv.

Brit. /ˌriːᵻnˈdaʊ/, /ˌriːɛnˈdaʊ/, U.S. /ˌriᵻnˈdaʊ/, /ˌriɛnˈdaʊ/
Forms: see re- prefix and endow v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: re- prefix, endow v.
Etymology: < re- prefix + endow v.
transitive. To endow again, esp. with money or qualities. Frequently with with.
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society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > settle (property) [verb (transitive)] > endow > again
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1607 S. Hieron Life & Death Dorcas in Wks. (1620) I. 390 How much is vented away by such meanes, by which..many an impouerished and spoiled church [might be] re-endowed.
1685 W. Kennett tr. Pliny Addr. Thanks to Good Prince 127 They were reinstated in their chair, reendow'd with Purple.
1742 J. Tucker Brief Hist. Princ. Methodism 11 Mankind, in general, are already re-endowed with a capacity of working out their own salvation.
1761 London & Environs Described IV. 102 The hospitals..being built, and re-indowed at the public expence.
1793 P. Newcome Hist. Abbey St Albans ix. 435 The king thought fit to re-endow one and thirty of these dissolved houses.
1835 J. A. Heraud Descent into Hell (ed. 2) v. 162 Superior Wisdom reconciling strife, And all complete in Him, and re-endowed With majesty of manhood most divine.
1869 Spectator 24 July 861/1 Concessions which re-endow the Free Church with an extra half-million.
1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist iii. 150 Each pain..taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.
1979 D. Church & E. S. Gowers Across Low Meadow (BNC) 15 In consequence the Vicarage was re-endowed.
1998 Boston Herald (Nexis) 20 Sept. 1 The fact that a president could survive in office..helped re-endow the presidency with power and prestige at a pivotal moment in American history.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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