dotate

Verb

dotate (third-person singular simple present dotates, present participle dotating, simple past and past participle dotated)

1. (literary, rare) To endow.
   • […] the opponents of the theory of "spontaneous generation" amusing themselves with declaring that the learned "preparator" at the Museum of the Garden of Plants (son of the inventor of that famous theory) is going off to "the Phœnician City" to favor the assembled savans With an account of his...1866 July 5, “Paris Gossip”, in The Nation, volume III, number 53, New York, N.Y.: Joseph H. Richards, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 2
   • It was at a time when The Lamp (an oil paper) was blasting everything Mexican and fighting the Cárdenas administration, and when the United States Government was pressing for payment for lands of Americans dotated to the agrarians.1947, Josephus Daniels, Shirt-Sleeve Diplomat, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, page 107