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a.
A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.
n.
The person to whom a gift or donation is made.
a.
Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution; as, advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative.
n.
Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in which the shell is wedge-shaped.
v. t.
To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.
n.
Anything presented or given; a gift; a donative; as, a Christmas present.
a.
Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts.
n.
The tenets of the Donatists.
n.
A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo Donax), used for fishing rods, etc.
a.
Capable of being donated or given.
v. t.
To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
n.
A donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over.
imp. & p. p.
of Donate
a.
Vested or vesting by donation; as, a donative advowson.
n.
A follower of Donatus, the leader of a body of North African schismatics and purists, who greatly disturbed the church in the 4th century. They claimed to be the true church.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Donate
a.
Pertaining to Donatism.
n.
A modification of the father's name borne by the son; a name derived from that of a parent or ancestor; as, Pelides, the son of Peleus; Johnson, the son of John; Macdonald, the son of Donald; Paulowitz, the son of Paul; also, the surname of a family; the family name.
n.
Same as Donat. Piers Plowman.
n.
See Donatory.
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