Dictionary: DOLT'ISH – DOM-I-CIL-I-A'TION

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DOLT'ISH, a.

Dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown. – Sidney.

DOLT'ISH-NESS, n.

Stupidity.

DOM, n. [-DOM suffix.]

Used as a termination, denotes jurisdiction, or property and jurisdiction; primarily, doom, judgment; as in kingdom, earldom. Hence it is used to denote state, condition or quality, as in wisdom, freedom.

DO'MA-BLE, a.

That may be tamed.

DO-MAIN', n. [Fr. domaine; Arm. domany. This would seem to be from L. dominium. Qu. is it the same word as demain, which is from the old French demesne. The latter can not be regularly deduced from dominium, domino. The Norman French has demesner, to rule, to demean; and the phrase, “de son demainer,” in his demain, would seem to be from a different source. Mainor, in Norman, is tenancy or occupation, from main, the hand. Domain seems to be the L. dominium, and to have been confounded with demain, demesne.]

  1. Dominion; empire; territory governed, or under the government of a sovereign; as, the vast domains of the Russian emperor; the domains of the British king.
  2. Possession; estate; as, the portion of the king's domains. – Dryden.
  3. The land about the mansion-house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy. In this sense, the word coincides with demain, demesne. Shenstone.

DO'MAL, a. [L. domus.]

Pertaining to house in astrology. – Addison.

DOME, n. [Fr. dôme; Arm. dom; L. domus; Gr. δομος; Ir. dom; Russ. dom; supposed to be from δεμω, to build. The Greek has also δωμα, a house, a plain roof. Qu. Sax. timbrian, Goth. timbryan, to build.]

  1. A building; a house; a fabric; used in poetry. – Pope.
  2. A cathedral. – Burnet.
  3. In architecture, a spherical roof raised over the middle of a building; a cupola. Encyc.
  4. In chimistry, the upper part of a furnace, resembling a hollow hemisphere or small dome. This form serves to reflect or reverberate a part of the flame; hence these furnaces are called reverberating furnaces. – Encyc.

DOM'ED, a.

Furnished with a dome.

DOMES'DAY, n. [See DOOMSDAY.]

DOME'-SHAP-ED, a.

Shaped like a dome.

DOMES'MAN, n. [See Doom.]

A judge; an umpire. [Obs.]

DO-MES'TIC, a. [L. domesticus, from domus, a house.]

  1. Belonging to the house, or home; pertaining to one's place of residence, and to the family; as, domestic concerns; domestic life; domestic duties; domestic affairs; domestic contentions; domestic happiness; domestic worship.
  2. Remaining much at home; living in retirement; as, a domestic man or woman.
  3. Living near the habitations of man; tame; not wild; as, domestic animals.
  4. Pertaining to a nation considered as a family, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, domestic troubles; domestic dissensions.
  5. Made in one's own house, nation or country; as, domestic manufactures.

DO-MES'TIC, n.

One who lives in the family of another, as a chaplain or secretary. Also, a servant or hired laborer, residing with a family.

DO-MES'TIC-AL-LY, adv.

In relation to domestic affairs.

DO-MES'TIC-ANT, a.

Forming part of the same family.

DO-MES'TIC-ATE, v.t.

  1. To make domestic; to retire from the public; to accustom to remain much at home; as, to domesticate one's self.
  2. To make familiar, as if at home. – Chesterfield.
  3. To accustom to live near the habitations of man; to tame; as, to domesticate wild animals.

DO-MES'TI-CATED, pp.

Made domestic; accustomed to remain at home.

DO-MES'TI-CA-TING, ppr.

Making domestic.

DO-MES-TIC-A'TION, n.

  1. The act of withdrawing from the public notice and living much at home.
  2. The act of taming or reclaiming wild animals.

DO-MES-TIC'I-TY, n.

State of being domestic.

DOM'I-CIL, n. [L. domicilium, a mansion.]

An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or family; a residence, animo manendi. – Story. Hopkinson.

DOM'I-CIL, or DOM'I-CIL-I-ATE, v.t.

To establish a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy. – Kent.

DOM'I-CIL-ED, or DOM-I-CIL'I-ATED, pp.

Having gained a permanent residence or inhabitancy.

DOM-I-CIL'I-A-RY, a.

Pertaining to an abode, or the residence of a person or family. A domiciliary visit is a visit to a private dwelling, particularly for the purpose of searching it, under authority.

DOM-I-CIL-I-A'TION, n.

Permanent residence; inhabitancy.