domesticate "28 dominate 
5. To convert to domestic uses, as wild ani- domically (do /mi -kal-i), ad, In a domical an animal lives: as t^^eture 
or cultivation;' reclaim from a state of na- chapels. 
t ur e. domicella (dom-i-sel a), 
The domaMated reindeer still retains his wild Instincts, do ""f 'J * ^nSfJ 
and never fails to protest against the necessity of labor. see aome.\ me 
B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 144. specific name 
II intrans. To live much at home; lead a * ^Kg 1 ^ f 
quiet home life; become a member of a family ^J 4 ^^ 
<>lrcle - la (Linneeus), 
I would rather ... see her married to some honest and adoD ted bv 
tender-hearted man, whose love might induce him to do- .. J 
mesticate with her, and to live peaceably and pleasingly 
within his family circle, than to see her mated with a 
prince of the blood. H. Brooke, Fool of Quality, I. 305. 
domestication (do-mes-ti-ka'shon), n. [= F. 
domestication = Sp. domestication = Pg. domes- 
ticacao = It domesticazione < ML. as if *<to- Sy^Serm'i 8 
ticatio(n-), < domesticare, domesticate: see do- nous with the sul) . 
mesticate.] 1. The act of becoming domestic, family Lorinoe, in- 
or the state of being domesticated; home life; eluding Eos, Cori- 
home-like association or familiarity. 2. The _***.. etc. 
[NL., dim. of L. 
some authors 
as the genus 
name instead of 
the barbarous 
word. Lorius. In 
Domicella (Lorius domtcella]. 
larly for the purpose of searching or inspecting it under 
authority, as in police supervision or in house-to-house 
visitation by sanitary officers. 
Whether or not official oversight [in ancient Egypt] in- 
cluded domiciliary visits, it at any rate went to the extent 
of taking note of each family. 
H. Spencer, Prill, of Sociol., 558. 
domiciliate (dom-i-sil'i-at), v. t. ; pret. and pp. 
domiciliated, ppr. domiciliating. [< NL. *domi- 
ciliatus, pp. of "domiciliare, < L. domicilium, a 
domicile: see domicile, y.] 1. To provide with 
or establish in a domicile ; fix in a place of 
residence. 
The domiciliated classes of one of the most interesting 
nations of the world. 
E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, Pref., p. iv. 
2f. To render domestic ; tame. 
The domiciliated animals. 
Poumall, Study of Antiquities, p. 61. 
f= D Oomi- domiciliation (dom-i-sil-i-a'shon), n. [< domi- 
domicile F ciliate + -ion.'} 1. The state of being domicili- 
cover, iiiue : see UCM, witwwv.j A. AJ^ KCUCI&I, i. u _i_ u i*.- 
a place of residence of a person or a family; in a house, household, + eultura cultiv, 
a narrower sense, the place where one lives; a Housekeeping and cookery; domestic 
nlooa nf ria.liit.iml abodfi. in contradistinction _ om y. J4. V. [Kare.J 
[< L. domus, 
"eultura, cultivation.] 
econ- 
domestication of the potato. 
domesticative (do-mes'ti-ka-tiv), a. [< domes- 
ticate + -ive.~] Tending to or of the nature of 
domestication: as, domesticative breeding. 
domesticity (do-mes-tis'i-ti), n. ; pi. domestici- 
ties (-tiz). [= F. domesticite = Sp. domestici- 
dad = Pg. domesticidade, < ML. domesticita(t-)s, 
< L. domesticus, domestic: see domestic.] 1. 
The state of being domestic. very nungry, go M^ewwn, gjjj^^ of MenU) xj . eng) into t ' w " e i ve houses, in order to erect a 
These great artists [who succeeded "the masters"] , , , ,. theme or horoscope by means of six great cir- 
brought with them mystery, despondency, domesticity, 2. In law, the place where a person has his c j ca jj ed circles of position . 
sensuality : of all these good came, as well as evil. home, or his principal home, or where he has fi om { na (dom'i-na) n pi domino; (-ne). [L., 
Jtuskin, Lectures on Art, 184. his (amily residence and personal place of busi- mistregs v lady f e ' m . O i dominus, master, lord ; 
Some of the aspects of a soldier's career, its nomadic ness; that residence trom which there is no uged ag yti es i n ML : see dominus.] In law, a 
present intention to remove, or to which there t ; t]e formerly given to ari honorable woman 
is a general intention to return. The domicile de- who j^ia a k aronv , n her own right. 
currenceVf^wo'eleS dominance, dominancy (dom'i-nans, -nan-si), 
2d, the intention of the person to make that place hishome. w . [< OF. dominance, dominence, f . dominance, 
lr.moa+ir.i.70 fdri mPH'ti si-/^ r /-in-fit a I Thus, a man may be a citizen of one counti-y, have his < dominant, dominant: see dominant. Cf.prc- 
lomesticize (ao-mes ti-su), t. r. , pret. ana domicile , al)other an( i temporarily reside in a third. Oaminanae^ Rule control authoritv ascen- 
pp. domestiCixed, ppr. OtmenMcMng. [< domes- Domicile is of three kinds : 1st, domicile of oriyin or na- 
tic + -ize.~\ To render domestic ; domesticate, tivttt/, depending on that of the parents at the time of Clancy. 
Southea ' birth ; 2d, domicile of choice, which is voluntarily acquired dominant (dom i-nant), a. and n. [\ Or . aomt- 
' ^'cdf.Tn'of> . FPi-nV, from a TiT-nnpr by the party ; and 3d, dontc* fti/ operad'on o/ iaw, as that nan f p dominant = Sp. Pg. It. dominante, < L. 
(domet), . [Piob from a roper (|f a wlfe arisi f ^.^ T he term domicile is dom l n(Hl(t _) s ppr . of dominari, rule: see domi- 
sometimes used to signify the length of residence re- '"y '*> V\ 
quired by the law of some countries for the purpose of es- note. Cf. jmdotmnant.] 1. a. 1. ^xeicising 
tablishing jurisdiction in civil actions ; in Scotland, resi- rule or chief authority; governing; predomi- 
character, its want of domesticity. 
The Century, XXXII. fl:!5. 
2. A domestic affair, act, or habit. 
The domesticities of life. ./. ilartineau. 
domesticize (do-mes'ti-slz), v. t. ; pret. and 
name.] A plain cloth, of which the warp is 
cotton and the weft woolen. 
domeykite (do-ma'kit), . [After I. Domeyko, 
\ Thilian n^nVralorist 1 A native coppei- ar Aeme for a * ! east (OTty *5? !"""". , the col !" try c ?"^' "^nt : as, the dominant party or faction, 
a cnilian mineralogist. J A native coppei ar- tutes a Domicile as to jurisdiction. All questions relating 
senid, occurring massive in Chili, of a tin-white 
to steel-gray color and metallic luster. 
domical (do'mi-kal), a. [< ML. "domicalis, do- 
to personal property, in matters of debt, intestacy, or tes- From the beginning the militant class, being by force 
tamentary disposition, are determined by the law of the of arms the dominant class, becomes the class which owns 
place of domicile, while those relating to real property the source of food the land. 
,, ! ^ __' , *,.,.- , -_- ,i ... Su.JLi-1 //. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 463. 
HWUMM vu" *u*-*<>V> N^- """"' "'""- are subject to the law of the place where it is situated. 
mtciahs, < L. domws a house, ML. a church, etc. : The property of a f ore igner domiciled in a country with H _ 2 Having a controlling effect or in- 
see dome.] Related to or shaped ike a dome ; which his own is at war is held to be subject to seizure as J* * . *" fgJlS,. or er f e( , tive . over . 
characterized by the presence of a dome or 
domes ; influenced in construction by the prin- 
ciples of the dome. 
The kings of Mykene had reared those tombs or trea- 
suries which show such a wonderful striving after the rfo- 
mical form while the domical construction was not yet un- 
derstood. E. A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, V. 405. 
Domical Church, a church of which a dome is the char- 
acteristic feature ; or, specifically, a church of which the 
entire roof-plan is practically a series of domes, whether 
boldly prominent, as in St. Mark's at Venice, and in the 
church of St. Front at Perigueux, France, copied from it 
that of an alien enemy. 
It would be more correct to say that that place is prop- 
erly the domicil of a person in which his habitation is fixed 
without any present intention of removing therefrom. 
Story, Conflict of Laws, iii. 43. 
"Two things must concur," says the same eminent ju- 
rist [Story], "to constitute domicile first, residence, and 
secondly, intention of making it the home of the party," 
and when once domicile is acquired it is not shaken off by 
occasional absences for the sake of business or of pleasure, 
or even by visits to a former domicile or to one's native 
country. Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, 67. 
domicile (dom'i-sil), v. t. ; pret. and pp. domi- 
ciled, ppr. domiciling. [= D. domicilieren = G. 
domiciliren = Dan. domiciliere = Sw. domicili- 
era, < F. domicilier = Sp. Pg. domiciliar, < NL. 
* 'domiciliare (see domiciliate), domicile; from 
the noun.] To establish in a fixed residence, 
or a residence that constitutes continuance in 
abode; domiciliate. 
He has now been a fortnight domiciled at Oriel. 
Mem. of R. H. Barham, in Ingoldsby Legends, I. 86. 
domiciliart (dom-i-sil'i-ar), n. [< ML. domi- 
ciliarius, a domestic : see domiciliary.] A do- 
mestic ; a member of a household. 
The dean of Strasburg, the prebendaries, the capitulars 
and domiciliars. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, iv. 1. 
. 
fluence ; most conspicuous or effective ; over- 
shadowing. 
In the view from the railway Saint Nicholas' tower is 
dominant. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 16. 
Moral existence is often thoughtlessly confounded with 
spiritual, because it is so dominant a form of natural ex- 
istence as to seem something apart from it. 
H. James, Subs, and Shad., p. 116. 
But once originated, the conception of the constancy of 
the order of Nature has become the dominant idea of mod- 
ern thought. Huxley, Amer. Addresses, p. 2. 
Dominant branch of a tree, in math., one containing at 
least half of all the knots of the tree. Dominant chord 
or triad, in music, the triad based upon the dominant or 
fifth tone of the scale. This triad precedes that of the 
tonic in the complete or authentic cadence. Dominant 
section, in music, an intermediate section of a piece, 
written in the key of the dominant, and thus contrasted 
with the first and last sections, in the key of the tonic. 
Dominant tenement, the tenement or parcel of land in 
favor of which a servitude exists over another tenement, 
called the seroient tenement. The owner of the dominant 
tenement is sometimes called the dominant owner. 
II. n. [= D. G. dominante = Dan. Sw. domi- 
nant, < It. dominante: see I.] In music: (a) 
The reciting tone in Gregorian scales or modes. 
(6) The fifth tone in the modern scales or modes : 
so called because of its importance in relation 
to the key-note or tonic. 
Ancient Greek music seems ... to have deviated from 
ours by ending on the dominant instead of the tonic. 
Helmholtz, Sensations of Tone (trans.), p. 371. 
domi- 
Domical Church. Cathedral of Perigueux, France ; nth century. 
in the eleventh century, or not apparent from the exte- 
rior, as is common in the medieval churches of An jou and 
bordering provinces. This system of construction is of 
Byzantine origin, and presents a highly interesting and 
important phase of architectural development. 
[P^rigord] is the land alike of flint implements and of 
domical churches. 
domiciliary (dom-i-sil'i-a-ri), a. [= OF. and 
F. domiciliairc = Sp. Pg. It. domiciliario, < ML. 
domiciliarius, prop, adj., domestic, < L. Awwd- dominantly (dom'i-nant-li), adr. In a 
hum, abode, domicile : see domicile.] 1. Per- nant malm e r ; so as to control or sway, 
taming to an abode, or the residence of a per- 
M. n f n ] It is owing to its dominantly materialistic side, and to 
or a ramny. its pf)wel . jn increasing the capa city for pain, as well as 
The personal and ilomiciliarji rights of the citizen. actual pain, that civilization has developed modern pes- 
Motley, simism. Bibliotheca Sacra, XLV. 27. 
Doniiciliar;/ visitation of the poor is the great need of dominate (dom'i-nat), V. ; pret. and pp. domi- 
the cit y- Merriam, S. Bowles, II. 325. ilate ^ p pr . dominating. [< L. dominates, pp. 
2. In eool,, constituting or pertaining to a pro- of dominari (> It. dominare = F. dominer = Sp. 
Contemporary Rev., L. 325. tective or investing envelop or case in which Pg. dominar : see also domineer), i-ule, be lord. 
