be endowed with something

Examples of endowing

endowing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

By endowing wine with these attributes, the wine poem appropriates the spiritual realm and reveals its full character.
The house succeeded in endowing three offspring in each generation, with the sole exception of the second heir whose only surviving child was a girl.
First, in most traditionally patrilineal communities there is a strong male opposition to endowing women, especially daughters, with land.
Perhaps we should look at other ways of endowing the distinction with moral significance.
Rather than endowing regions with greater bargaining power, large population seemed to work against a region's fiscal interests.
The more intrusive strategy aims at endowing addressees with additional problem-solving modes.
It is an act of sublimation, by which man overcomes his utterly chaotic experience of reality by endowing it with meaning.
His book riddle focuses on the book as an object, endowing it with physical attributes.
Nor does he seem to regard democratization as endowing citizens with anything more than a louder voice in debates over economic development.
There are several possibilities for endowing relational databases with an information ordering.
Advertising may change a spelling, and take nouns and treat them like adjectives, endowing them with both comparative and superlative degrees.
They are major structural elements that are responsible for endowing the properties of elastic recoil and resilience on dynamic connective tissues.
This may soon be feasible, endowing human action with cosmic purpose.
Cognitive scientists, economists, and biologists have often chased after the same beautiful dreams by building elaborate models endowing organisms with unlimited abilities to know, memorize, and compute.
Key qualities for endowing systems with abilities to manage dynamism and change are flexibility and openness.
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