Patronize vs Endow - What's the difference?
patronize | endow |
To make a patron.
To assume a tone of unjustified superiority; to talk down to; to treat condescendingly.
To make oneself a customer of a business, especially a regular customer.
To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.
To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); — followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.
To bestow freely.
To be furnished with something naturally.
As verbs the difference between patronize and endow
is that patronize is to make a patron while endow is to furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.patronize
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Alternative forms
* patronise (Commonwealth)Verb
(patroniz)Synonyms
* (talk down to) condescendendow
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* indow (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- She was'' ''endowed'' ''with a beautiful voice.