Obs. Also 7 endoured. [ad. OF. endouairer, f. en- (see EN-1) + douaire DOWER.] trans. To dower (a woman); also fig.
1606. G. W[oodcocke], trans. Hist. Ivstine, Ff 4 a. He maried to a most honorable man, the daughter of his enimy Vitellius, being most largely endoured.
1653. Waterhouse, Apol. Learn., 142 (L.). This once Renowned Church … was gloriously decked with the jewels of her Espousals … and frankly Endowered.
1654. R. Codrington, trans. Ivstine’s Hist., 15. The wife being endowred with the blood of her husband, delivered both her self and the Kingdom of her Husband to her adulterer.
