Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to dower, or a woman's marriage portion; constituting dower, or comprised in it.
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- adjective Pertaining to
dower , or awoman 'smarriage portion ; constituting or comprised in dower.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her contention was that by having financial control of her dotal estate, her assets could not be claimed by her husband.
Spain. 2009
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Special actions existed for the enforcement of dotal agreements.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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She was suing him for a separation, and property, dotal and paraphernal.
The Memories of Fifty Years Sparks, William H 1870
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In these (called also the countries of the _dotal regime_) there was no community between the spouses of their acquisitions.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862
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She was suing him for a separation, and property, dotal and paraphernal.
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When the dotal system had been explained to Schwab, he seemed much inclined that way for his friend.
Cousin Pons Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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No one would imagine how anxious he was to marry under the dotal system.
Cousin Pons Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Submitting another's McBride's hypothesis was based on limited anec - essay as one's own work may well amount to dotal observations, but he was subsequently shown fraud, and if it seems to have been accepted, one to be right and thalidomide was removed from the barrier to committing further fraud has been market.
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Their requeft being granted, Peter Aldobrandin, one of thofe monks, prefented himfelf in his facer - dotal veflments with a crucifix in his hand, be - fore a large pile of wood all on fire.
The spirit of general history : in a series of lectures, from the eighth, to the eighteenth century : wherein is given a view of the progress of society, in manners and legislation during that period Thomson, George, Rev., fl. 1791-2 1792
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A room appendant ti the church, in which the freer* dotal garmentff and confecrated things are repofitrd DryiUu, t.
A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is ... 1768
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