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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• endowment:
    1. I. The act of endowing: expr. by ger., etc. of verb: v. to endow.
    2. II. Natural gift, of body or mind: dos, dōtis, f.: to advantages of person add the e.s of mind, ingenii dotes corporis adde bonis, Ov.: the e.s of nature and fortune, naturae fortunaeque dotes, Plin. Ep.: cf. Cic. de Or. 1, 55, 234: "eam [artem] verborum dote locupletasti et ornasti." Phr.: with these e.s, cum hac indole [virtutum atque vitiorum], Liv. 21, 5, fin.: v. gift, talent.
    3. III. A pecuniary settlement: perh. dōnātio (applicable to any gift of property): v. gift. Or expr. by circuml., that school is in possession of an e., *ei scholae nonnihil pecuniae quotannis ex testamento redit: v. to endow (III.).
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• ENDOWMENT
donatio (general term of the Roman law for any gift of property): possessiones donatae (Nov. Theod., 2; Tit., 5, 3). To draw up, recall, etc., an act of endowment, donationem conficere, revocare. The endowment will not hold good, donatio nullam habet firmitatem, or irrita est (both Ulp., ad leg. Cinc.). The endowment of a church, etc., pecunia ecclesiae donata or relicta. Endowments, possessiones donatae.