What's the difference between dotation and eleemosynary?

Dotation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.
  • (n.) Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To know if this heritage is really a dotation or an empoisoned gift, is an important question that we are going to study in light of experimental data and constatations of clinical pharmacology.
  • (2) Further, a full emergency set (both drugs and devices) is proposed as standard dotation.
  • (3) We stress the need for Heart and Lung medical specialties separation, the need for number of patients limitation, and the need for technics material dotation for ambulatory cardiology.

Eleemosynary


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to charity, alms, or almsgiving; intended for the distribution of charity; as, an eleemosynary corporation.
  • (a.) Given in charity or alms; having the nature of alms; as, eleemosynary assistance.
  • (a.) Supported by charity; as, eleemosynary poor.
  • (n.) One who subsists on charity; a dependent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Setting the stage for these recommendations was a broad definition of charitable services that included costs for delivering services to indigents and for providing community services to fulfill the hospital's charitable, religious, educational, research, or eleemosynary purposes.

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