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The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway. In such a people, the haugtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom. Burke.

Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.

A ruler or ruling power. "Sole dominator of Navarre." Shak. Jupiter and Mars are dominators for this northwest part of the world. Camden.

A grammar. [Obs.] [Written also donet.]

See Donatory.

To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.

The act of giving or bestowing; a grant. After donation there an absolute change and alienation of the property of the thing given. South.

The tenets of the Donatists.

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.

Pertaining to Donatism.

A gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present. "The Romans were entertained with shows and donatives." Dryden.

One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.

A donee of the crown; one the whom, upon certain condition, escheated property is made over.

See Do-naught. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Having the structure of the palate like that of the ostrich and emu.

bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory.

Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.

To charm; to bewitch. [Obs.] Heywood.

A charming; state of being bewitched or deluded. [Obs.]

degree; womanish; weak. The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor. Bacon. An effeminate and unmanly foppery. Bp. Hurd.