Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A thing given to a sacred use.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A thing given to a sacred use.

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  • noun A thing given to a sacred use.

Etymologies

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Latin donarium, from donare.

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Examples

  • Greeks, but not of the Aeginetans for he expected a donary of them, as having won the greatest honor in the battle at Salamis.”

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

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