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 asacred use.
Etymologies
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Latin donarium, from donare.
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Examples
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Greeks, but not of the Aeginetans for he expected a donary of them, as having won the greatest honor in the battle at Salamis.”
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