Chapter 469

Public domain , the territory belonging to a State or to the general government; public lands. [U.S.] <-- 2. the situation (status) of intellectual property which is not protected by copyright, patent or other restriction on use. Anything in the public domain may be used by anyone wihout restriction. --> -- Right of eminent domain , that superior dominion of the sovereign power over all the property within the state, including that previously granted by itself, which authorizes it to appropriate any part thereof to a necessary public use, reasonable compensation being made.

Domal <Xpage=443>

Do"mal (?) , a. [L. domus house.] (Astrol.) Pertaining to a house.

Addison.

Domanial <Xpage=443>

Do*ma"ni*al (?) , a. Of or relating to a domain or to domains.

Dome <Xpage=443>

Dome , n. [F. d\'93me , It. duomo , fr. L. domus a house, domus Dei or Domini , house of the Lord, house of God; akin to Gr. <?/ house, <?/ to build, and E. timber . See Timber .]

1. A building; a house; an edifice; -- used chiefly in poetry.

Approach the dome , the social banquet share. Pope.

2. (Arch.) A cupola formed on a large scale.

&hand; "The Italians apply the term il duomo to the principal church of a city, and the Germans call every cathedral church Dom ; and it is supposed that the word in its present English sense has crept into use from the circumstance of such buildings being frequently surmounted by a cupola."

Am. Cyc.

3. Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building; as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.

4. (Crystallog.) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.

&hand; If the plane is parallel to the longer diagonal (macrodiagonal) of the prism, it is called a macrodome ; if parallel to the shorter (brachydiagonal), it is a brachydome ; if parallel to the inclined diagonal in a monoclinic crystal, it is called a clinodome ; if parallel to the orthodiagonal axis, an orthodome .

Dana.

Dome <Xpage=443>

Dome , n. [See Doom .] Decision; judgment; opinion; a court decision. [Obs.]

Chaucer.

Domebook <Xpage=443>

Dome"book` (?) , n. [ Dome doom + book .] (O. Eng. Law) A book said to have been compiled under the direction of King Alfred. It is supposed to have contained the principal maxims 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.

Domed <Xpage=443>

Domed (?) , a. Furnished with a dome; shaped like a dome.

Domesday <Xpage=443>

Domes"day` (?) , n. 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 .]

Domesman <Xpage=443>

Domes"man (?) , n. ; pl. Domesmen (#) . [See Doom .] A judge; an umpire. [Obs.]

Domestic <Xpage=443>

Do*mes"tic (?) , a. [L. domesticus , fr. domus use: cf. F. domestique . See 1st Dome .]

1. Of or pertaining 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.

4. Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions .

Shak.

3. Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman .

4. Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals .

5. Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.

Domestic <Xpage=443>

Do*mes"tic , n. 1. One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.

The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic . V. Knox.

2. pl. (Com.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. [U. S.]

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Domestical <Xpage=444>

Do*mes"tic*al (?) , a. Domestic. [Obs.]

Our private and domestical matter. Sir. P. Sidney.

Domestical <Xpage=444>

Do*mes"tic*al , n. A family; a household. [Obs.]

Domestically <Xpage=444>

Do*mes"tic*al*ly , adv. In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.

Domesticant <Xpage=444>

Do*mes"ti*cant (?) , a. Forming part of the same family. [Obs.]

Sir E. Dering.

Domesticate <Xpage=444>

Do*mes"ti*cate (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Domesticated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Domesticating. ] [LL. domesticatus , p. p. of domesticare to reside in, to tame. See Domestic , a. ] 1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self .

2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word .

3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.

Domestication <Xpage=444>

Do*mes`ti*ca"tion (?) , n. [Cf. F. domestication .] The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.

Domesticator <Xpage=444>

Do*mes"ti*ca`tor (?) , n. One who domesticates.

Domesticity <Xpage=444>

Do`mes*tic"i*ty (?) , n. [LL. domesticitas : cf. F. domesticit\'82 .] The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.

Domett <Xpage=444>

Dom"ett (?) , n. A kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weft woolen.

Blakely.

Domeykite <Xpage=444>

Do"mey*kite (?) , n. [Named after Domeyko , a mineralogist of Chili.] (Min.) A massive mineral of tin-white or steel-gray color, an arsenide of copper.

Domical <Xpage=444>

Dom"i*cal (?) , a. Relating to, or shaped like, a dome.

Domicile <Xpage=444>

Dom"i*cile (?) , n. [L. domicilium ; domus house + (prob.) root of celare to conceal: cf. F. domicile . See Dome , and Conceal .]

1. An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or a family.

2. (Law) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode.

Wharton.

Domicile <Xpage=444>

Dom"i*cile , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Domiciled (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Domiciling .] [Cf. F. domicilier . Cf. Domiciliate .] To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate.

Kent.

Domiciliar <Xpage=444>

Dom`i*cil"i*ar (?) , n. A member of a household; a domestic.

Domicillary <Xpage=444>

Dom`i*cil"l*a*ry (?) , a. [LL. domiciliarius .] Of or pertaining to a domicile, or the residence of a person or family.

The personal and domiciliary rights of the citizen scrupulously guarded. Motley.

Domiciliary visit (Law) , a visit to a private dwelling, particularly for searching it, under authority.

Domiciliate <Xpage=444>

Dom`i*cil"i*ate (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Domiciliated (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Domiciliating (?) .] [See Domicile .]

1. To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.

2. To domesticate.

Pownall.

Domiciliation <Xpage=444>

Dom`i*cil`i*a"tion (?) , n. The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy.

Milman.

Domiculture <Xpage=444>

Dom"i*cul`ture (?; 135) , n. [L. domus house + E. culture . See 1st Dome .] The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc. [R.]

R. Park.

Domify <Xpage=444>

Dom"i*fy (?) , v. t. [L. domus + -fy : cf. F. domifier .] 1. (Astrol.) To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House , in astrological sense. [Obs.]

2. To tame; to domesticate. [Obs.]

Johnson.

Domina <Xpage=444>

Dom"i*na (?) , n. [L., lady. See Dame .] (O. Eng. Law) Lady; a lady; -- a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right.

Burrill.

Dominance, Dominancy <Xpage=444>

Dom"i*nance (?) , Dom"i*nan*cy (?) , n. Predominance; ascendency; authority.

Dominant <Xpage=444>

Dom"i*nant (?) , a. [L. dominans , -antis , p. pr. of dominari : cf. F. dominant . See Dominate .] Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power .

The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel. Macaulay.

Dominant estate &or; tenement (Law) , the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement . Bouvier. Wharton's Law Dict . -- Dominant owner (Law) , one who owns lands on which there is an easement owned by another.

Syn. -- Governing; ruling; controlling; prevailing; predominant; ascendant.

Dominant <Xpage=444>

Dom"i*nant , n. (Mus.) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.

Dominant chord (Mus.) , the chord based upon the dominant.

Dominate <Xpage=444>

Dom"i*nate (?) , v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dominated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dominating .] [L. dominatus , p. p. of dominari to dominate, fr. dominus master, lord. See Dame , and cf. Domineer .] To predominate over; to rule; to govern. "A city dominated by the ax."

Dickens.

We everywhere meet with Slavonian nations either dominant or dominated . W. Tooke.

Dominate <Xpage=444>

Dom"i*nate , v. i. To be dominant.

Hallam.

Domination <Xpage=444>

Dom`i*na"tion (?) , n. [F. domination , L. dominatio .]

1. The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or insolent sway.

In such a people, the haugtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom. Burke.

2. A ruling party; a party in power. [R.]

Burke.

3. pl. A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen.

Thrones, dominations , princedoms, virtues, powers. Milton.

Dominative <Xpage=444>

Dom"i*na*tive (?) , a. [Cf. F. dominatif .] Governing; ruling; imperious.

Sir E. Sandys.

Dominator <Xpage=444>

Dom"i*na`tor (?) , n. [L.] A ruler or ruling power. "Sole dominator of Navarre."

Shak.

Jupiter and Mars are dominators for this northwest part of the world. Camden.

Domine <Xpage=444>

Dom"i*ne (?) , n. [See Dominie .]

1. A name given to a pastor of the Reformed Church. The word is also applied locally in the United States, in colloquial speech, to any clergyman.

2. [From Sp. domine a schoolmaster.] (Zo\'94l.) A West Indian fish ( Epinula magistralis ), of the family Trichiurid\'91 . It is a long-bodied, voracious fish.

Domineer <Xpage=444>

Dom`i*neer" (?) , v. i. & t. [ imp. & p. p. Domineered (?) ; p. pr. & vb. n. Domineering .] [F. dominer , L. dominari : cf. OD. domineren to feast luxuriously. See Dominate , v. t. ] To rule with insolence or arbitrary sway; to play the master; to be overbearing; to tyrannize; to bluster; to swell with conscious superiority or haughtiness; -- often with over ; as, to domineer over dependents .

Go to the feast, revel and domineer . Shak.

His wishes tend abroad to roam, And hers to domineer at home. Prior.

Domineering <Xpage=444>

Dom`i*neer"ing , a. Ruling arrogantly; overbearing.

A violent, brutal, domineering old reprobate. Blackw. Mag.

Syn. -- Haughty; overbearing; lordly. See Imperious . -- Dom`i*neer"ing*ly , adv.

Dominical <Xpage=444>

Do*min"ic*al (?) , a. [LL. dominicalis , for L. dominicus belonging to a master or lord ( dominica dies the Lord's day), fr. dominus master or lord: cf. F. dominical . See Dame .]

1. Indicating, or pertaining to, the Lord's day, or Sunday.

2. Relating to, or given by, our Lord; as, the dominical (or Lord's) prayer .

Howell.

Some words altered in the dominical Gospels. Fuller.

Dominical altar (Eccl.) , the high altar. -- Dominical letter , the letter which, in almanacs, denotes Sunday, or the Lord's day ( dies Domini ). The first seven letters of the alphabet are used for this purpose, the same letter standing for Sunday during a whole year (except in leap year, when the letter is changed at the end of February). After twenty-eight years the same letters return in the same order. The dominical letters go backwards one day every common year, and two every leap year; e. g. , if the dominical letter of a common year be G, F will be the dominical letter for the next year. Called also Sunday letter . Cf. Solar cycle , under Cycle , n.

Dominical <Xpage=444>

Do*min"ic*al , n. The Lord's day or Sunday; also, the Lord's prayer. [Obs.]

Dominican <Xpage=444>

Do*min"i*can (?) , a. [NL. Dominicanus , fr. Dominicus , Dominic , the founder: cf. F. Dominicain .] Of or pertaining to St. Dominic (Dominic de Guzman), or to the religions communities named from him.

Dominican nuns , an order of nuns founded by St. Dominic, and chiefly employed in teaching. -- Dominican tertiaries (the third order of St. Dominic). See Tertiary .

Dominican <Xpage=444>

Do*min"i*can , n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars , friars preachers , black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary , and in France, Jacobins .

Dominicide <Xpage=444>

Do*min"i*cide (?) , n. [L. dominus master + caedere to cut down, kill.]

1. The act of killing a master.

2. One who kills his master.

Dominie <Xpage=444>

Dom"i*nie (?) , n. [L. dominus master. See Don , Dame .]

1. A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Scot.]

This was Abel Sampson, commonly called, from occupation as a pedagogue, Dominie Sampson. Sir W. Scott.

2. A clergyman. See Domine , 1 . [Scot. & Colloq. U. S.]

Dominion <Xpage=444>

Do*min"ion (?) , n. [LL. dominio , equiv. to L. dominium . See Domain , Dungeon .]

1. Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.

I praised and honored him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion . Dan. iv. 34.

To choose between dominion or slavery. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

2. Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency.

Objects placed foremost ought . . . have dominion over things confused and transient. Dryden.

3. That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject ; as, the dominions of a king . Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions .

4. pl. A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination , 3.

Milton.

By him were all things created . . . whether they be thrones, or dominions , or principalities, or powers. Col. i. 16.

Syn. -- Sovereignty; control; rule; authority; jurisdiction; government; territory; district; region.

Domino <Xpage=444>

Dom"i*no (?) , n. ; pl. Dominos or (esp. the pieces for a game) Dominoes (#) . [F. domino , or It. domin\'95 , or Sp. domin\'a2 , fr. L. dominus master. The domino was orig. a hood worn by the canons of a cathedral. See Don , Dame .]

1. A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.

Kersey.

2. A mourning veil formerly worn by women.

3. A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.

4. A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.

5. A person wearing a domino.

6. pl. A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played

Hoyle.

7. One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.

Hoyle.

<-- fall like dominoes . To fall sequentially, as when one object in a line, by falling against the next object, causes it in turn to fall, and that second object causes a third to fall, etc.; the process can be repeated an indefinite number of times. Derived from an entertainment using dominoes arranged in a row, each standing on edge and therefore easily knocked over; when the first is made to fall against the next, it starts a sequence which ends when all have fallen. For amusement, people have arranged such sequences involving thousands of dominoes, arrayed in fanciful patterns.

Domino theory . A political theory current in the 1960's, according to which the conversion of one country in South Asia to communism will start a sequential process causing all Asian countries to convert to Communism. The apparent assumption was that an Asian country with a Western orientation was as politically unstable as a domino standing on edge. Used by some as a justification for American involvement in the Vietnam war, 1964-1972. -->