Consigned vs Endowed - What's the difference?
consigned | endowed |
(consign)
(business) To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.
To entrust to the care of another.
* Alexander Pope
To send to a final destination.
* Atterbury
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To assign; to devote; to set apart.
* Dryden
To stamp or impress; to affect.
* Jeremy Taylor
As verbs the difference between consigned and endowed
is that consigned is (consign) while endowed is (endow).As an adjective endowed is
pertaining to an endowment, as with an endowed chair at a university.consigned
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(en verb)- Atrides, parting for the Trojan war, / Consigned the youthful consort to his care.
- to consign the body to the grave
- At the day of general account, good men are to be consigned over to another state.
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- The French commander consigned it to the use for which it was intended by the donor.
- Consign my spirit with great fear.