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- English Word Donatary Definition See Donatory.
- English Word Donate Definition To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.
- English Word Donated Definition of Donate
- English Word Donating Definition of Donate
- English Word Donation Definition The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.
- English Word Donation Definition That which is given as a present; that which is transferred to another gratuitously; a gift.
- English Word Donation Definition The act or contract by which a person voluntarily transfers the title to a thing of which be is the owner, from himself to another, without any consideration, as a free gift.
- English Word Donatism Definition The tenets of the Donatists.
- English Word Donatist Definition 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.
- English Word Donatistic Definition Pertaining to Donatism.
- English Word Donative Definition A gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present.
- English Word Donative Definition A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3.
- English Word Donative Definition Vested or vesting by donation; as, a donative advowson.
- English Word Donator Definition One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.
- English Word Donatory Definition A donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over.
- English Word Donax Definition A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo Donax), used for fishing rods, etc.
- English Word Doncella Definition A handsome fish of Florida and the West Indies (Platyglossus radiatus). The name is applied also to the ladyfish (Harpe rufa) of the same region.
- English Word Done Definition of Do
- English Word Done Definition p. p. from Do, and formerly the infinitive.
- English Word Done Definition Performed; executed; finished.