Dotation

Quick meaning: Dotation is a noun meaning (literary, rare) The act of dotating or bestowing something; endowment, or an instance of this.

Meaning

(literary, rare) The act of dotating or bestowing something; endowment, or an instance of this.

More Meanings

1. (historical, usually italicized) A grant of revenues from territory conquered by the French Empire (c. 1804–1814).

Example Sentences

I declare that the substantial conquests in the dotation of land to the workmen of the field and the guarantees given in favor of the workmen and labor unions should be the basis of our economic organization.

In 1936 President [Lázaro] Cárdenas expropriated thousands of acres, gave it to the peons, and provided loans and machinery so that they could work it to advantage. That dotation was widely criticized and defended.

As to eleemoſynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal viſitors, to ſee that that property is rightly employed, which would otherwiſe have deſcended to the viſitor himſelf: […]

In 1396 he and his wife, Alice, sued Elizabeth, widow of John Sergeaux, for one third of the manor of Tywardreath, Cornwall and others lands, it being the dower of the said Alice of the dotation of Alice's former husband, Ralph Carminow, Knt.

Word Forms

• dotations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dation, bestowal, donation, bestowment, begifting, bestow.

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