Associations to the word «Dotation»

Wiktionary

DOTATION, noun. The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.
DOTATION, noun. Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope