donaryn.
/ˈdəʊnəri/ A gift or donation; a votive offering.
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the mind > possession > giving > gift or present > [noun]
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Harry Freeman's1925
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1582 Bible (Rheims) Luke xxi. 5 The Temple..was adorned with goodly stones and donaries.
1628 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 3) Democritus to Rdr. 60 Hospitalls so built and maintained, not by Collections, beneuolences, donaries.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 125 Were not Cups frequently among the Donaries presented to the Gods?
1700 J. Brome Trav. i. 64 There have been several Donaries conferred upon it [College] both in Exhibitions and Scholar-ship.
1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 191/2 Donary, a thing given to sacred uses.
1862 F. Hall in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1861 30 7 The kings..granted away land..by way of local donaries.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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