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donation

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Word definitions for donation in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Old French donacion (13c.), from Latin donationem (nominative donatio ) "a presenting, giving," noun of action from past participle stem of donare "give as a gift," from donum "gift," from PIE *donum "gift" (cognates: Sanskrit danam "offering, ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A Donation , when referred to in canon law in the Roman Catholic Church , is defined as the gratuitous transfer to another of some right or thing. When it consists in placing in the hands of the donee some movable object it is known as a gift of hand ( ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Donation \Do*na"tion\, n. [L. donatio; cf. F. donation.] The act of giving or bestowing; a grant. After donation there is an absolute change and alienation of the property of the thing given. --South. That which is given as a present; that which is transferred ...

Usage examples of donation.

While we cannot solicit donations from people in states where we are not yet registered, we know of no prohibition against accepting donations from donors in these states who approach us with an offer to donate.

Cassius, because in the agrarian donation he sought popularity among the allies, and was therefore lowered in the estimation of his countrymen, in order that by another donation he might conciliate their affections, ordered that the money received for the Sicilian corn should be refunded to the people.

The East India Company paid him the cost of his trial, amounting to more than seventy thousand pounds sterling, and conferred upon him a pecuniary donation.

I am for biogenetic donation, so there is no need for the uterine sack inside myself.

Shnomri is also for biogenetic donation, of ova, which is why Shnomri comes from elsewhere.

Pavek said, fighting to keep the desperation from his voice as Sassel started walking again, carrying him toward the boneyard, which was, in fact, a very good place to lose a corpse, and where the knacker accepted all donations, no questions asked or coins required.

Germyn, as was his right by position and status as a connoisseur, helped prepare Citizen Boyne for his Donation.

It was the miniature thunderclap of air slapping together, as it filled the space that had been occupied by the kneeling, meditating form of Citizen Boyne, raptly awaiting his Donation of Fluid.

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The next morning he was up at daybreak, and long before the sun had risen above the highest peak of Caucasus, he had departed from the Lars Monastery, leaving a handsome donation in the poor-box toward the various charitable works in which the brethren were engaged, such as the rescue of travellers lost in the snow, or the burial of the many victims murdered on or near the Pass of Dariel by the bands of fierce mountain robbers and assassins, that at certain seasons infest that solitary region.

As elsewhere in Europe, there was a deep craving to detemporalize the Church and clear the way to God of all the money and fees and donations and oblations that cluttered it.

And they verify what Conrad told us, that Dinah used that bank account the way she used Sloan, to handle those bequests and donations she wanted to keep quiet.

No memorial service, send donations to the Daniel Waters KOMA Memorial Scholarship Fund etcetera etcetera drek etcetera.

Iris had a good mind not to accept it, but Hec was able to convince her that she would be doing them a favour if she could accept the donation.

The abbot had conceived of a small Nomadic library he wanted created as a donation of high culture from the monastic Memorabilia of Christian civilization to the benighted tribes still wandering the northern Plains, migrant herdsmen who would one day be persuaded into literacy by formerly edible missionaries, already busy among them and no longer considered edible under the Treaty of the Sacred Mare between the hordes and the adjacent agrarian states.