[f. ENDOW v. + -ER.] One who endows.

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1624.  Darcie, Birth of Heresies, xviii. 75. Authors, Restorers, Endowers, and augmenters of the Missall Sacrifice.

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1765–9.  Blackstone, Comm. (1793), 604. The right of visitation of the former results … to the king; and of the latter to the patron or endower.

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1885.  Ch. Q. Rev., XXI. 139. If the State regarded itself as the endower of the Church.

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