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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.

The act of condoning or pardoning.

The division of insects that includes the dragon flies.

The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, or the like. Bouvier.

Advowson. [Obs.] The donations or advocations of church livings. Sanderson.

A benefit conferred; esp. a charitable donation.

W. Tooke. The founders of monasteries imprecated evil on those who should desecrate their donations. Salmon.

Capable of being donated or given. [R.]

The person to whom a gift or donation is made.

Same as Donat. Piers Plowman.

or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations. If my death might make this island happy . . . I…