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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 act of condoning or pardoning.

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.

Vested or vesting by donation; as, a donative advowson. Blackstone.

The person to whom a gift or donation is made.

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…

A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, and constituting a permanent fund; endowment. He was entered on the foundation of Westminster. Macaulay.

sh on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty.

Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts. Octavia presented the poet for him admirable elegy on her son Marcellus. Dryden.