ENDOW Copy link • ENDOWfiliae dotem dare: filiam dotare: filiam instruere (the latter with ornaments, furniture, etc.; hence (The words are found in this connection and order.) dotare et instruere). Since he could not endow his daughter himself, cum filiae (nubili) dotem conficere non posset. IMPROPR., aliqua re instruere (furnish with what is necessary); ornare, exornare, adornare; dote alicujus rei (e.g., verborum, Cic.) locupletare et ornare (Cic.). ENDOWED with anything, instructus, ornatus, praeditus: endowed with great natural talents, praeclaris animi dotibus praeditus; richly endowed both by nature and by fortune, instructus naturae fortunaeque omnibus bonis. Richly endowed, abunde auctus ornatusque aliqua re. To settle property upon etc., proprietatem agri, etc.: dono dare (Ulp., leg. Cinc., p. 290). To endow alms-houses, *ptochotrophium condere, et inire rationem, quemadmodum [in omni mutatione dominorum] illud quasi consecratum remanere possit (after Cic.; about the monument to his daughter’s memory). To endow a church, relinquere aliquid ecclesiae (by will; Vid: Just. Instit., lib. 3, 28, 7).