Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In civil law, the act of giving: as, the dation of an office: distinguished from
donation or gift in that it does not imply beneficence or liberality in the giver.
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- noun rare, law The act of
giving ,granting orconferring (e.g. an office) but notliberal as adonation or gift - noun obsolete, medicine A
dose
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Examples
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Additionally, after a detailed statistical analysis and recommen dation by Management Research Group, the Journal made a slight change to its corporate-score calculation to compensate for the discrepancy — although the correlation between the two methods was very high.
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He ripped a boulder out of the foun dation and hurled it at the Avars.
Labor Policy John Dermot Woods 2010
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* Maintenance *garbled* dation has mission impacted airborne opera *garbled* on most of air breather aircraft.
Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010
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* Maintenance *garbled* dation has mission impacted airborne opera *garbled* on most of air breather aircraft.
Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010
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Ironically, and to the chagrin of many politicians and even some difficulties at the Gates Foun-dation which funded some of the Small Schools sctivites in Chicago for most of the decade, Small Schools are out.
Archive 2008-02-01 Jim Horn 2008
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But then give me leave to ask you, as I think it very likeiy that you will be married before your return to England, Whether now that you have been so good as to speak favourably of my son, and that you call Miss Byron sister, you will oblige him with a recommen-dation to that sister?
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Another R2 044 000 has been allocated to address the degra-dation of natural and agricultural resources and to improve the socio-economic status and food security of rural communities.
Index 2004
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"We had to dig deeper than planned for the found - dation," Sanders reminded him.
Hiding in the Shadows Hooper, Kay 2000
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We must manage it and do the structural adjustments we will be laying the foun - dation for sustained economic growth.
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Of course, the Prince continued to wonder with more than a little trepi - dation how his brother would receive these tidings, but it was a fear he easily suppressed.
Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999
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