单词 | donate |
释义 | donatedonatn. Name given to members or associates of certain religious orders (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > lay brother or sister > [noun] conversec1500 convert1577 oblat1656 oblate1693 donate1804 1804 L. de Boisgelin Anc. & Mod. Malta I. ii. iii. 239 Those who were desirous of being received into the confraternity, and to become brothers de stage or donats in the order, presented themselves before the brother who was to receive them, fell on their knees, and placing their hands on the missal which the brother held open, pronounced the following words. 1858 G. Bowyer Ritual of Profession of Knights & Relig. Ladies p. xiii A Donat, or Confrère, is a member of the Order, and participates in the divine offices, benefits, prayers, Masses, and pious works of the Order. He is called Confrère, as being a member of the Confraternity of Donats. The Donats are also called in the statutes Fratres de Stagio, or Fratelli di Staggio. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 174/1 There was also an affiliation of religious ladies (dames) and of donats or honorary members. 1886 M. Geudens Life of St. Norbert p. xxvii The donates, or oblates, who offer themselves to the Order, make their vows also; but they are not perpetual. 1902 W. K. Bedford & R. Holbeche Order Hosp. St. John Jerus. 207 In addition to Members there should be Honorary Associates and Donats—..the Donats being persons who, from an appreciation of the works of the Order, had contributed to its funds. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 13/1 Affiliated brethren (confratres) and ‘donats’ (donati, i.e. regular subscribers..to the order in return for its privileges). 1925 C. S. Durrant Link between Flemish Mystics & Eng. Martyrs 45 Here [i.e. at Diepenveen] he saw about a hundred veiled nuns with no small number of lay sisters, donates, and servants. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). donatev. (Chiefly U.S.) 1. transitive. To make a donation or gift of; hence (in U.S.) to give, bestow, grant. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > give as a present or make a present of giveOE putc1330 skink1508 bestow1535 gift1619 donate1845 1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. vii. 172 The sixteenth [section] is ‘donated’ by Congress for the support of common schools. 1862 M. Hopkins Hawaii 324 Under the former tenure, all lands, to whomsoever donated, were revocable at will. 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Ulpian Rules vi, in tr. Gaius Institutes 374 Retentions out of a dowry are competent..on account of things donated, or on account of things abstracted. 1928 S. Vines Humours Unreconciled xxi. 270 Godly millionaires..‘donating’ motors and villas at climatic stations to their missionaries abroad. 2. To present (a person, etc.) with something. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > present > present (a person) with a thing presentc1300 feoff1377 propine1543 donate1862 1862 A. Trollope N. Amer. I. 197 Soldiers returning from the Mexican wars were donated with warrants for land. Draft additions October 2011 Chemistry. Of an atom, molecule, etc.: to lose or transfer (an electron, proton, atom, etc.) to another species in a chemical reaction or process. Opposed to accept. ΚΠ 1928 Chem. Rev. 5 79 It is not..necessary to postulate in say the hydrolysis of an ester by a dilute acid that an oxonium ion is ‘donated’ at the identical moment that another one is ‘accepted’ but the reactions present interesting features. 1929 J. Kendall At Home among Atoms xii. 161 Each atom of zinc has donated to each copper ion two electrons as ‘heart-balm’ for the alienation of a sulphate ion's affections. 1944 J. A. Timm Gen. Chem. xxxii. 343 Acids whose molecules may donate more than one proton are called polyprotic acids. 1982 G. C. Hill & J. S. Holman Chem. in Context: Lab. Man. & Study Guide 38 Each ligand contains at least one atom bearing a lone pair of electrons which can be donated to the central cation forming a co-ordinate (dative) bond. 2000 Times 27 Jan. 38/2 Methylation..is a simple chemical transaction in which a molecule donates a four-atom appendage (a methyl group) to an adjacent molecule. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1804v.1845 |
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