dotate
To endow.
Verb
- To endow.
- […] the opponents of the theory of "spontaneous generation" amusing themselves with declaring that the learned "preparator" at the Museum of the Garden of Plants (son of the inventor of that famous theory) is going off...
- It was at a time when The Lamp (an oil paper) was blasting everything Mexican and fighting the Cárdenas administration, and when the United States Government was pressing for payment for lands of Americans dotated to...
- She enjoyed of course rich estates elsewhere out of imperial and Salian demesne but were not communications with England a factor perhaps when her husband decided to dotate her just here on the lower Rhine? - 1994, Karl...
Origin
First attested in c. 1540; borrowed from Latin dōtātus, perfect passive participle of Latin dōtō (“to endow, apportion”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from dōs (“dowry, gift”, oblique stem in dōt-) + -ō, from Proto-Italic *dōtis, from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃tis, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”).