deodatet (deodat)

[L. Deo dat us, given to (or by) God: Deo, dat. of Deus, God; dat us, pp. of dare, give: see deodand and datel.] 1. A gift or offering to God; a thing offered in the name of God. Long it were to reckon up particularly what God was owner of under the Law:.. of this sort [was] whatsoever their Corban contained, wherein that ble ed widow's deodate was laid up. Hooker , Eccles. Polity, vii. 22. 2. A gift from God. Davies . He observed that the Dr. was born of New-Year's Day, and that it was then presaged he would be a deodate, a fit new-year's gift for God to bestow on the world. H. Paman (1653), in D'Oyly's Sancroft, ii. deodorant (dē-ō'dor-ant), n. [L. de -priv. + odor an(t-)s, ppr. of odorare , smell, odor .] A deodorizer.