dotation/doʊˈteɪʃən/EtymologyFrom Middle English dotacion, from Late Latin dotatio, from Latin dōtāre (“to endow”). By surface analysis, dotate + -ion. In sense 3, borrowed from French dotation, ultimately from the same origin.dotation means the act of dotating or bestowing something; endowment, or an instance of this. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.nounThe act of dotating or bestowing something; endowment, or an instance of this.“Neyther is it to bee forgotten, that this dedicating of Foundations and Dotations to profeſſory Learning, hath not onely had a Maligne aſpect, and influence vpon the growth of Scyences, but hath alſo been preiudiciall to States and gouernments.”A grant of revenues from territory conquered by the French Empire (c. 1804–1814).“Jérôme [Napoléon Bonaparte] gave the dotations away to favorites. […] Dotations were the revenues, but almost invariably not the source from which such sums were drawn, settled by a ruling monarch upon those delegated to represent his authority, in order that they might maintain both their clerical staff, if they had one, and the proper splendor of their office. They took the form of such things a”