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Endowment |
 | | An endowment is a property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated for the support of any person, institution, or object, as a student, professorship, school, hospital. |
 | | A considerable portion of the foundations thus established in England was squandered or confiscated during the Reformation of Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth, while the remainder, by virtue of the Acts of Uniformity and Supremacy, was transferred to the Anglican Church, which still retains it. |
 | | Ecclesiastical endowments in France have undergone many vicissitudes, particularly from the year 1789, when a yearly income of about $14,000,000 was suddenly and unjustly confiscated. |
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