dotating

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