To provide with a dower or dowry; to endow (archaic legal term).
From Medieval Latin 'dotare', derived from 'dos' (dowry). This verb form appears in medieval English legal documents but became obsolete as marriage and property law changed.
This verb is completely extinct in modern English, replaced by 'endow' or 'dower', but it survives in historical documents—linguistic archaeology shows us that entire classes of words can vanish when the cultural practices they described disappear.
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