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Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation. The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens. J. R. Green. Now against himself he sounds this doom. Shak.

A species of palm tree (Hyphæne Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia. [Written also doum palm.]

A penalty or fine for neglect. [Local, New England]

Full of condemnation or destructive power. [R.] "That doomful deluge." Drayton.

A day of sentence or condemnation; day of death. "My body's doomsday." Shak.

A judge; an umpire. [Obs.] Hampole.

Same as Dempster. [Scot.]

To adjudge. [Obs.] Spenser.

To doom beforehand; to predestinate. Thou art foredomed to view the Stygian state. Dryden.

Doomed to hell. Milton.

To foredoom.

Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed. Shak. -- Ac*curs"ed*ly, adv. -- Ac*curs"ed*ness, n.

to the case; to apply an epithet to a person. Yet God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied. Milton.

bs.] The state that attends all men after this. Locke. Three days I promised to attend my doom. Dryden.

t death or severe wounds; to die by violence. "Cæsar must bleed." Shak. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. Pope.

Base or uncurrent coin. [Obs.] And those which eld's strict doom did disallow, And damm for bullion, go for current now. Sylvester.

used with an infinitive. However, I with thee have fixed my lot, Certain to undergo like doom. Milton.

ritten also chare.] [Eng.] When thou hast done this chare, I give thee leave To play till doomsday. Shak.

to appear, as before a court; to summon. The cited dead, Of all past ages, to the general doom Shall hasten. Milton. Cited by finger of God. De Quincey.

pronounce a judicial sentence against; to sentence to punishment, suffering, or loss; to doom; -- with to before the penalty. Driven out from bliss, condemned In this abhorred deep to utter woe. Milton. To each his sufferings; all are men, Condemned alike to groan. Gray. And they shall condemn him to death. Matt. xx.…