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A title anciently given to the pope, and later to other church dignitaries and some monastic orders. See Don, and Dan.

Capable of being tamed; tamable.

Tamableness.

Damage; hurt. [Obs.] Chapman.

Dominion; empire; authority.

Pertaining to a house. Addison.

Of or relating to a domain or to domains.

A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry. Approach the dome, the social banquet share. Pope.

of the common law, the penalties for misdemeanors, and the forms of judicial proceedings. Domebook was probably a general name for book of judgments. Burrill.

Furnished with a dome; shaped like a dome.

A day of judgment. See Doomsday. [Obs.] Domesday Book, the ancient record of the survey of most of the lands of England, made by order of William the Conqueror, about 1086. It consists of two volumes, a large folio and a quarto, and gives the proprietors' tenures, arable land, woodland, etc. [Written also Doomsday Book…

A judge; an umpire. [Obs.]

rtaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong. Macaulay.

Domestic. [Obs.] Our private and domestical matter. Sir. P. Sidney.

In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.

Forming part of the same family. [Obs.] Sir E. Dering.

To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.

The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.

One who domesticates.

The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.