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the possessions of a sovereign or commonwealth, or the like. Also used figuratively. The domain of authentic history. E. Everett. The domain over which the poetic spirit ranges. J. C. Shairp.

Capability of being alienated. "The alienability of the domain." Burke.

The Anglo-Saxon domain (i. e., Great Britain and the United States, etc.); the Anglo-Saxon race.

The fee or domain of a baron; the lordship, dignity, or rank of a baron.

command of a burg (fortress or castle); but the title afterward became hereditary, with a domain attached.

To doom to be taken for public use, under the right of eminent domain.

a fief, to whom was granted the right to exercise certain imperial powers within his own domains. [Germany]

An earldom; the domain of a count or earl. [Obs.]

s then bare, Despoiled is the summer fair. Gower. A law which restored to them an immense domain of which they had been despoiled. Macaulay. Despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss. Milton.

The station or government of a despot; also, the domain of a despot. Freeman.

Of or relating to a domain or to domains.

The realm or domain of dunces. [Jocose] Carlyle.

ons. Peacham. The poor man dwells in a humble cottage near the hall where the lord of the domain resides. C. J. Smith. To dwell in, to abide in (a place); hence, to depend on. "My hopes in heaven to dwell." Shak. -- To dwell on or upon, to continue long on or in; to remain absorbed with; to stick to; to make much of;…

eminent station; an eminent historian, statements, statesman, or saint. Right of eminent domain. (Law) See under Domain.

Lying outside of the domain of logic. -- Ex`tra*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

nderstanding flutters and my memory fumbles. Chesterfield. Alas! how he fumbles about the domains. Wordsworth.

f uniting lands, rights, or revenues, to the ecclesiastical chamber, i. e., to the pope's domain.

A warlike or hostile entrance into the possessions or domains of another; the incursion of an army for conquest or plunder.

Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor. What lands and lordships for their owner know My quondam barber. Dryden.

One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count.