dotation

American  

[doh-tey-shuhn] / doʊˈteɪ ʃən /

noun

1. an endowment.

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dotation British  

/ dəʊˈteɪʃən /

noun

1. law the act of giving a dowry; endowment

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Etymology

Origin of dotation

1350–1400; < Latin dōtātiōn- (stem of dōtātiō ), equivalent to dōtāt ( us ), past participle of dōtāre to provide a dowry for (derivative of dōs dowry; dot ² ) + -iōn- -ion; replacing Middle English dotacioun < Anglo-French

Example Sentences

The dotation to the Duke of Orléans, on his marriage, would have saved from starvation hundreds of thousands whose claim for charity far exceeded his.

From Edmond Dantès by Flagg, Edmund

This dotation remains charged, even to extinction, with the pensions at present enjoyed by the former Senators, as also with those which have been or may hereafter be granted to their widows.

From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by Cole, John William

On protest William receives Spain, Orange, and Nîmes, a sufficiently magnificent dotation, were it not that all three are in the power of the infidels.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George

The dotation of the President is enormous certainly, and I wish for his own sake it had been rather more moderate.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

He was in the battles of Jena, Magdeburg, Friedland, &c., and after the latter received the title of Count, and a dotation of 80,000f.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various