dotation

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dotation

/doʊˈteɪʃən/ US
/də(ʊ)ˈteɪʃn/ UK

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From Middle English dotacion, from Late Latin dotatio, from Latin dōtāre (“to endow”). By surface analysis, dotate + -ion. In sense 3, borrowed from French dotation, ultimately from the same origin.

noun dotations

countable, literary, rare, uncountable The act of dotating or bestowing something; endowment, or an instance of this. Neyther is it to bee forgotten, that this dedicating of Foundations and Dotations to profeſſory Learning, hath not onely had a Maligne aſpect, and influence vpon the growth of Scyences, but hath alſo been preiudiciall to States and gouernments.
countable, historical, uncountable A grant of revenues from territory conquered by the French Empire (c. 1804–1814). Jérôme [Napoléon Bonaparte] gave the dotations away to favorites. […] Dotations were the revenues, but almost invariably not the source from which such sums were drawn, settled by a ruling monarch upon those delegated to represent his authority, in order that they might maintain both their clerical

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@misc{dotation_2026,
  title = {dotation},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dotation},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}