donative

[ don-uh-tiv, doh-nuh- ]

/ ˈdɒn ə tɪv, ˈdoʊ nə- /

a gift or donation.

Origin of donative

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin dōnātīvum, noun use of neuter of dōnātīvus gratuitous, equivalent to dōnāt(us) (see donation) + -īvus -ive

That every convent and monastery should pay a donative, proportionable to its riches and rents.

Fox's Book of Martyrs |John Foxe
I may here mention that the anomaly of “donative” benefices was abolished by Act of Parliament in 1898.

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood |J. Conway Walter
Galba undid himself by that speech, legi a se militem, non emi; for it put the soldiers out of hope of the donative.

Essays |Francis Bacon
Even the donative of Constantine to the Roman bishop Silvester was declared to be a pitiable fiction.

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 5 |Various

Had not the donative antimacassar already established a claim upon the Treachers' gratitude?

Major Vigoureux |A. T. Quiller-Couch

donative

/ (ˈdəʊnətɪv) /

a gift or donation

a benefice capable of being conferred as a gift

of or like a donation

being or relating to a benefice

C15: from Latin dōnātīvum donation made to soldiers by a Roman emperor, from dōnāre to present