donary
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin donarium, from donare.
Noun
donary (plural donaries)
- A thing given to a sacred use.
- Robert Burton
- ...those hospitals so built and maintained, not by collections, benevolences, donaries...
- Robert Burton
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “donary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)