Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gift; a present.
  • noun As an ancient Greek unit of length, a hand-breadth or palm.

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Examples

  • [3472] The word doron or dorema is supposed by some to have existed in the earliest Greek texts, although not found in any extant now.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

  • This kind of insect which originated from the rice we call doron

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • Just in case you're thinking what I'm thinking ... the family name Dörries is apparently from the German: from a reduced pet form of the medieval personal name Isidor(i)us (Greek Isidoros, from Isis, the name of an originally Egyptian goddess + doron ‘gift’).

    Archive 2007-04-15 2007

  • Heretofore, I had thought that “doron” started with an M. fnxtr

    Creato-Terrorism Update - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • Thus in Theodorus, ‘god-given,’ the doron or ‘gift’ is not in itself significant.

    Poetics 2002

  • Thus in Theodorus, ‘god-given,’ the doron or ‘gift’ is not in itself significant.

    Poetics 2002

  • It is worth noting that Peacham composed other emblem books: Basilicon doron and Emblemata varia, several manuscripts of which are extant in the British

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas FREDERICK HARD 1968

  • * Epeideper to doroumenon to pneuma to hagion esti, kaleitai kai to doron homonumos to charismati: [4849] 1

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • [34] Epeideper to doroumenon to pneuma to hagion esti, kaleitai kai to doron homonumos to charismati.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • This bread is called eulogia, because it is blessed and because a blessing accompanies its use; it is also called antidoron, because it is a substitute for the doron, the real gift, which is the Holy Eucharist.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

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