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English
Etymology
From Latin Deo (“to God”) (from Deus (“God”)) + datum (“thing given”).
Noun
deodate (plural deodates)
- (obsolete) A gift or offering to, or from, God.
1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J S, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, , London: Will Stansby , published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):Long it were to reckon up particularly what God was owner of under the Law: for of this sort was all which they spent in legal sacrifices; of this sort their usual oblations and offerings; of this sort tithes and firstfruits; […] of this sort whatsoever their Corban contained, wherein that blessed widow's deodate was laid up.
References
“deodate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.