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noun
The act of dotating or bestowing something; endowment, or an instance of this.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, literary, rare, uncountable
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noun
A grant of revenues from territory conquered by the French Empire (c. 1804–1814).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
Qualifier: usually italicized
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History
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.
