dotate

present singular third person dotates · participle present dotating · participle past dotated · past dotated

1. literaryrareTo endow.

   She enjoyed of course rich estates elsewhere out of imperial and Salian demesne but were not communications with England a factor perhaps when her husband decided to dotate her just here on the lower Rhine?

   1994, Karl Leyser, edited by Timothy Reuter, Communications and Power in Medieval Europe: The Gregorian Revolution and Beyond, London; Rio Grande, O.H.: The Hambledon Press, →ISBN, page 104

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   […] the opponents of the theory of "spontaneous generation" amusing themselves with declaring that the learned "preparator" at the Museum of the Garden of Plants (son of the inventor of that famous theory) is going off to "the Phœnician City" to favor the assembled savans With an account of his efforts, hitherto unsuccessful, to hatch three crocodile-eggs (two of them white and one red), presented to him last winter by a traveller returned from the East, with a view to "dotating" France with a new article of food—stewed crocodile being declared by the said traveller to be both palatable and nutritious in a high degree.

   1866 July 5, “Paris Gossip”, in The Nation, volume III, number 53, New York, N.Y.: Joseph H. Richards, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 2

   It was at a time when The Lamp (an oil paper) was blasting everything Mexican and fighting the Cárdenas administration, and when the United States Government was pressing for payment for lands of Americans dotated to the agrarians.

   1947, Josephus Daniels, Shirt-Sleeve Diplomat, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, page 107