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Domestical (?), a. Domestic. [Obs.]
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Our private and domestical matter.
Sir. P. Sidney.
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Domestical, n. A family; a household. [Obs.]
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Domestically, adv. In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.
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Domesticant (?), a. Forming part of the same family. [Obs.] Sir E. Dering.
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Domesticate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Domesticated; p. pr. & vb. n. Domesticating.] [LL. domesticatus, p. p. of domesticare to reside in, to tame. See , a.] 1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.
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2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.
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3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.
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domesticated adj. 1. tame, tamed; -- of animals. Opposite of wild.
Syn. -- domestic.
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2. accustomed to home life; as, some men think it unmanly to be domesticated; others find gratification in it.
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3. acclimated to a new environment; -- of plants or animals.
Syn. -- naturalized, nonnative.
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Domestication (?), n. [Cf. F. domestication.] The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.
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Domesticator (?), n. One who domesticates.
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Domesticity (?), n. [LL. domesticitas: cf. F. domesticité.] The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.
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Domett (?), n. A kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weft woolen. Blakely.
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Domeykite (?), n. [Named after Domeyko, a mineralogist of Chili.] (Min.) A massive mineral of tin-white or steel-gray color, an arsenide of copper.
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Domical (?), a. Relating to, or shaped like, a dome.
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Domicile (?), n. [L. domicilium; domus house + (prob.) root of celare to conceal: cf. F. domicile. See , and .] 1. An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or a family.
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2. (Law) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode. Wharton.
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Domicile, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Domiciled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Domiciling.] [Cf. F. domicilier. Cf. .] To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate. Kent.
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Domiciliar (?), n. A member of a household; a domestic.
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Domicillary (?), a. [LL. domiciliarius.] Of or pertaining to a domicile, or the residence of a person or family.
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The personal and domiciliary rights of the citizen scrupulously guarded.
Motley.
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Coloq. Domiciliary visit (Law), a visit to a private dwelling, particularly for searching it, under authority.
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Domiciliate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Domiciliated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Domiciliating (?).] [See .] 1. To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.
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2. To domesticate. Pownall.
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Domiciliation (?), n. The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy. Milman.
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Domiculture (?; 135), n. [L. domus house + E. culture. See 1st .] The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc. [R.] R. Park.
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Domify (?), v. t. [L. domus + -fy: cf. F. domifier.] 1. (Astrol.) To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See , in astrological sense. [Obs.]
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2. To tame; to domesticate. [Obs.] Johnson.
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Domina (?), n. [L., lady. See .] (O. Eng. Law) Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right. Burrill.
{ Dominance (?), Dominancy (?), } n. Predominance; ascendency; authority.
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Dominant (?), a. [L. dominans, -antis, p. pr. of dominari: cf. F. dominant. See .] Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.
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The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel.
Macaulay.
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Coloq. Dominant estate or Coloq. Dominant tenement (Law), the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement. Bouvier. Wharton's Law Dict. -- Coloq. Dominant owner (Law), one who owns lands on which there is an easement owned by another.
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Syn. -- Governing; ruling; controlling; prevailing; predominant; ascendant.
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Dominant, n. (Mus.) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
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Coloq. Dominant chord (Mus.), the chord based upon the dominant.
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Dominate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dominated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dominating.] [L. dominatus, p. p. of dominari to dominate, fr. dominus master, lord. See , and cf. .] To predominate over; to rule; to govern. “A city dominated by the ax.” Dickens.
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We everywhere meet with Slavonian nations either dominant or dominated.
W. Tooke.
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Dominate, v. i. To be dominant. Hallam.
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dominated adj. 1. controlled or ruled by superior authority or power.
Syn. -- dominated by, under the thumb of(predicate).
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2. controlled by one's wife; -- of men.
Syn. -- henpecked.
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dominating adj. 1. exercising influence or control. Opposite of subordinate.
Syn. -- ascendant, ascendent, prestigious, dominant.
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2. high enough to provide a clear view of the surrounding area; -- of a height or viewpoint.
Syn. -- commanding, overlooking.
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Domination (?), n. [F. domination, L. dominatio.] 1. The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway.
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In such a people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom.
Burke.
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2. A ruling party; a party in power. [R.] Burke.
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3. pl. A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen.
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Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
Milton.
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Dominative (?), a. [Cf. F. dominatif.] Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
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Dominator (?), n. [L.] A ruler or ruling power. “Sole dominator of Navarre.” Shak.
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Jupiter and Mars are dominators for this northwest part of the world.
Camden.
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domine, dominee (?), n. [See .] 1. A name given to a pastor of the Reformed Church. The word is also applied locally in the United States, in colloquial speech, to any clergyman.
Syn. -- dominus, dominie.
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2. [From Sp. domine a schoolmaster.] (Zoöl.) A West Indian fish (Epinula magistralis), of the family Trichiuridæ. It is a long-bodied, voracious fish.
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Domineer (?), v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Domineered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Domineering.] [F. dominer, L. dominari: cf. OD. domineren to feast luxuriously. See , v. t.] To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over; as, to domineer over dependents.
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Go to the feast, revel and domineer.
Shak.
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His wishes tend abroad to roam,
And hers to domineer at home.
Prior.
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Domineering, a. Ruling arrogantly; overbearing.
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A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate.
Blackw. Mag.
Syn. -- Haughty; overbearing; lordly. See . -- Domineeringly, adv.
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Dominical (?), a. [LL. dominicalis, for L. dominicus belonging to a master or lord (dominica dies the Lord's day), fr. dominus master or lord: cf. F. dominical. See .] 1. Indicating, or pertaining to, the Lord's day, or Sunday.
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2. Relating to, or given by, our Lord; as, the dominical (or Lord's) prayer. Howell.
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Some words altered in the dominical Gospels.
Fuller.
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Coloq. Dominical altar (Eccl.), the high altar. -- Coloq. Dominical letter , the letter which, in almanacs, denotes Sunday, or the Lord's day (dies Domini). The first seven letters of the alphabet are used for this purpose, the same letter standing for Sunday during a whole year (except in leap year, when the letter is changed at the end of February). After twenty-eight years the same letters return in the same order. The dominical letters go backwards one day every common year, and two every leap year; e. g., if the dominical letter of a common year be G, F will be the dominical letter for the next year. Called also Sunday letter. Cf. Solar cycle, under , n.
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Dominical, n. The Lord's day or Sunday; also, the Lord's prayer. [Obs.]
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Dominican (?), prop. a. [NL. Dominicanus, fr. Dominicus, Dominic, the founder: cf. F. Dominicain.] Of or pertaining to St. Dominic (Dominic de Guzman), or to the religious communities named from him.
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Coloq. Dominican nuns , an order of nuns founded by St. Dominic, and chiefly employed in teaching. -- Coloq. Dominican tertiaries the third order of St. Dominic. See .
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Dominican, prop. n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins.
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dominicide (?), n. [L. dominus master + caedere to cut down, kill.] 1. The act of killing a master.
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2. One who kills his master.
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Dominick n. (Zool.), an American breed of chicken having barred gray plumage raised for meat and brown eggs.
Syn. -- Dominique.
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Dominie (?), n. [L. dominus master. See , .] 1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Scot.]
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This was Abel Sampson, commonly called, from occupation as a pedagogue, Dominie Sampson.
Sir W. Scott.
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2. A clergyman. See , 1. [Scot. & Colloq. U. S.]
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Dominion (?), n. [LL. dominio, equiv. to L. dominium. See , .] 1. Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.
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I praised and honored him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion.
Dan. iv. 34.
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To choose between dominion or slavery.
Jowett (Thucyd. ).
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2. Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency.
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Objects placed foremost ought . . . have dominion over things confused and transient.
Dryden.
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3. That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions.
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4. pl. A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See , 3. Milton.
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By him were all things created . . . whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers.
Col. i. 16.
Syn. -- Sovereignty; control; rule; authority; jurisdiction; government; territory; district; region.
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Dominion Day. In Canada, a legal holiday, July lst, being the anniversary of the proclamation of the formation of the Dominion in 1867.
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Dominique n. (Zool.), an American breed of chicken having barred gray plumage raised for meat and brown eggs.
Syn. -- Dominick.
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Domino (?), n.; pl. Dominos or (esp. the pieces for a game) Dominoes (#). [F. domino, or It. dominò, or Sp. dominó, fr. L. dominus master. The domino was orig. a hood worn by the canons of a cathedral. See , .] 1. A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice. Kersey.
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2. A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
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3. A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.
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4. A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.
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5. A person wearing a domino.
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6. pl. A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played Hoyle.
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7. One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played. Hoyle.
Coloq. fall like dominoes . To fall sequentially, as when one object in a line, by falling against the next object, causes it in turn to fall, and that second object causes a third to fall, etc.; the process can be repeated an indefinite number of times.
The phrase is derived from an entertainment using dominoes arranged in a row, each standing on edge and therefore easily knocked over; when the first is made to fall against the next, it starts a sequence which ends when all have fallen. For amusement, people have arranged such sequences involving thousands of dominoes, arrayed in fanciful patterns.
Domino theory. A political theory current in the 1960's, according to which the conversion of one country in South Asia to communism will start a sequential process causing all Asian countries to convert to Communism. The apparent assumption was that an Asian country politically aligned with the West was as politically unstable as a domino standing on edge. It was used by some as a justification for American involvement in the Vietnam war, 1964-1972.
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Domino whist. A game of cards in which the suits are played in sequence, beginning with a 5 or 9, the player who gets rid of his cards first being the winner.
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Dominus (?), n.; pl. Domini (#). [L., master. See .] Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor. Cowell.
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Domitable (?), a. [L. domitare to tame, fr. domare.] That can be tamed. [R.] Sir M. Hale.
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Domite (?), n. (Min.) A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de-Dôme in Auvergne, France, where it is found.
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Don (dŏn), n. [Sp. don; akin to Pg. dom, It. donno; fr. L. dominus master. See , and cf. , , , , .] 1. Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes.
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Don is used in Italy, though not so much as in Spain. France talks of Dom Calmet, England of Dan Lydgate.
Oliphant.
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2. A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities. [Univ. Cant] “The great dons of wit.” Dryden.
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Don, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Donned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Donning.] [Do + on; -- opposed to doff. See , v. t., 7.] To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with.
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Should I don this robe and trouble you.
Shak.
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At night, or in the rain,
He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn.
Emerson.
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Doña (?), n. [Sp. doña. See .] Lady; mistress; madam; -- a title of respect used in Spain, prefixed to the Christian name of a lady.
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Donable (?), a. [L. donabilis, fr. donare to donate.] Capable of being donated or given. [R.]
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Donar n. the Teutonic god of thunder; counterpart of Norse Thor.
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Donary (?), n. [L. donarium, fr. donare.] A thing given to a sacred use. [R.] Burton.
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Donat (?), n. [From Donatus, a famous grammarian.] A grammar. [Obs.] [Written also donet.]
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Donatary (?), n. See .
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Donate (dōnāt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Donated; p. pr. & vb. n. Donating.] [L. donatus, p. p. of donare to donate, fr. donum gift, fr. dare to give. See 2d .] To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.
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donated adj. given freely especially to a cause or fund; as, the donated van made their meal-on-wheels venture possible.
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Donation (?), n. [L. donatio; cf. F. donation.] 1. The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.
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After donation there is an absolute change and alienation of the property of the thing given.
South.
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2. That which is given as a present; that which is transferred to another gratuitously; a gift.
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And some donation freely to estate
On the bless'd lovers.
Shak.
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3. (Law) 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. Bouvier.
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Coloq. Donation party , a party assembled at the house of some one, as of a clergyman, each one bringing some present. [U.S.] Bartlett.
Syn. -- Gift; present; benefaction; grant. See .
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Donatism (?), n. [Cf. F. Donatisme.] (Eccl. Hist.) The tenets of the Donatists.
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Donatist (?), n. [LL. Donatista: cf. F. Donatiste.] (Eccl. Hist.) 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.
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Donatistic (?), a. Pertaining to Donatism.
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Donative (?), n. [L. donativum, fr. donare: cf. F. donatif. See .] 1. A gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present. “The Romans were entertained with shows and donatives.” Dryden.
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2. (Eccl. Law) 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 , n., 3.
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Donative, a. Vested or vesting by donation; as, a donative advowson. Blackstone.
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Donator (?), n. [L. Cf. .] (Law) One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.
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Donatory (?), n. (Scots Law) A donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over.
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Do-naught (?), n. [Do + naught.] A lazy, good-for-nothing fellow.
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Donax (?), n. [L., reed, also a sea fish, Gr. �.] (Bot.) A canelike grass of southern Europe (Arundo Donax), used for fishing rods, etc.
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Doncella (?), n. [Sp., lit., a maid. Cf. .] (Zoöl.) 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.
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Done (?), p. p. from , and formerly the infinitive. 1. Performed; executed; finished.
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2. It is done or agreed; let it be a match or bargain; -- used elliptically.
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Coloq. Done brown , a phrase in cookery; applied figuratively to one who has been thoroughly deceived, cheated, or fooled. [Colloq.] -- Coloq. Done for , tired out; used up; collapsed; destroyed; dead; killed. [Colloq.] -- Coloq. Done up . (a) Wrapped up. (b) Worn out; exhausted. [Colloq.]
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Done, a. [Prob. corrupted from OF. doné, F. donné, p. p. of OF. doner, F. donner, to give, issue, fr. L. donare to give. See , and cf. .] Given; executed; issued; made public; -- used chiefly in the clause giving the date of a proclamation or public act.
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Donee (?), n. [OF. doné, F. donné, p. p. See the preceding word.] 1. The person to whom a gift or donation is made.
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2. (Law) Anciently, one to whom lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a power is conferred for execution; -- sometimes called the appointor.
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Donet (?), n. Same as . Piers Plowman.
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Doni (?), n. [Tamil t�nī.] (Naut.) A clumsy craft, having one mast with a long sail, used for trading purposes on the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon. [Written also dhony, doney, and done.] Balfour.
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