Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.