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donative, a. and n.|ˈdɒnətɪv, ˈdəʊnətɪv|
[ad. L. dōnātīvus adj., whence dōnātīv-um n. donation, largess, f. dōnāre: see donate, and -ive.]
A. adj.
1. Characterized by being given or presented; of the nature of a donation: esp. of a benefice: Vesting or vested by donation; opposed to presentative.
1559in Strype Ann. Ref. I. App. viii. 22 Foundations of free-chappels, and other howses ecclesiastical by the kings lycence, to be donatyve and not presentatyve. 1610J. Guillim Heraldry vi. iii. (1611) 260 To these donatiue augmentations of Armes I will adde certaine Armes assumptiue. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. xi. 382 The deanery is donative, and the installation merely by the king's letters patent. 1875Bp. Magee in Parl. 1 June, The holder of a donative living owes no obedience to his diocesan.
†2. ‘That is able or apt to give’ (Blount Glossogr. 1656). Obs.
B. n.
1. A donation, gift, present; esp. one given formally or officially, as a largess or bounty.
c1430Lydgate Balade of our Ladie xi, O mirthe of martyrs, sweter then Sitole of Confessours also richest donatife. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 361 b, The Graunt, & Donative of Ludovicus Pius. 1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. ii. v. §7 The Romane Emperours custome was at certaine solemne times to bestow on his Souldiers a Donatiue. 1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 17 The devout oblations and donatives of the fishermen. 1728Morgan Algiers II. v. 313 Francis I gave the Grand Master a Royal Reception, accompanied with a Princely Donative. 1843J. Martineau Chr. Life (1867) 171 [Christ] ranked the widow's mite above the vast donatives of vanity.
2. spec. A benefice which the founder or patron can bestow without presentation to or investment by the ordinary.
1564W. Bullein Dial. agst. Pest. (1888) 83 He would faine haue a benefice or personage of some pretie donatiue; he cannot get it at the bishoppes handes. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 297 The King can create or found a Donative exempt from the visitation of the ordinary. 1772Warton & Huddesford Life Hearne 26 He was presented to the Donative or Curacy of Elsfield near Oxford. 1877J. C. Cox Ch. Derbysh. III. 84 This living was a donative, from the dissolution of the monasteries to the first year of Anne.
†3. One who is presented to a benefice. Obs. rare.
1651N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. ii. xxvii. (1739) 127 In their Original, Bishops were meerly Donatives from the Crown, invested by delivery of the Ring and Pastoral Staff.
Hence ˈdonatively adv., by way of a donation.
1827G. S. Faber Orig. Exp. Sacr. ii. iii. 64 Donatively presenting..sacrifices and vows and libations. |