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ror liimfclf fubmitted Tome cafes, wherein he was con¬ 
cerned, to be determined by it. The addition of day to 
this dome-book was not meant with any aliufion to the 
final day of judgment, as many perfons have conceived; 
but was toltrengthen and confirm it, and fignifies merely 
the judicial decifive record or book of dooming judg¬ 
ment and juftice. Camden calls this book Gitlielmi Li- 
brum CcnJ'ualem, the Tax-book of king William ; and it 
was further called Magna Rolla JVinton, as having been 
kept in the cathedral of Winchefter. The dean and 
chapter of York have a regifter ftiled doomfday ; fo hath 
the bifliop of Worcefter; and there is an ancient roll in 
Chefter caftle, called domjday-roll. Blount. A tranfcript 
of the domefday-book of William I. has been made and 
publithed, by which the accefs to it is rendered more fa¬ 
miliar to our antiquaries and hiltorians. 
DOMES'TIC, or Domestical, adj. \_domeJHcus , Lat.] 
Belonging to the houfc ; not relating to things public.— 
The practical knowledge of the domejlic duties, is the 
principal glory of a woman. Clarijfa. —Private; done at 
home; not open.—In this their domejlical celebration of 
the Paffover, they divided fupper into two courfcs. Hooker. 
—Inhabiting the houfe; not wild.—The faithful pru¬ 
dent hulband is an honelt, tractable, and domejlic, animal. 
Addifon. —Not foreign ; inteftine.— Domejlical evils, for 
that we think we can mailer them at all times, are often 
permitted to run on forward, till it be too late to recall 
them. Hooker. 
DOMES'TIC, f. One kept in the fame houfe.—A 
fervant dwells remote from all knowledge of his lord’s 
purpofes : he lives as a kind of foreigner under the fame 
roof; a domejlic, and yet a llranger too. South. 
To DOMES'TICATE, v. a. To make domeftic ; to 
withdraw from the public. To make as familiar as if of 
the family.— Domcjlicate yourfelf there, while you flay at 
Naples. Chejlerjidd. 
DOMES'TIC ALLY, adv. Relatively to domeftic mat¬ 
ters.—'Make yourfelf familiarly and dcmejlically ufeful to 
them, by offering yourfelf for all their little commihions, 
and aflilting in doing the honours of their houfes. Ckef- 
terjidd. 
DOME'VRE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Vofges, and chief place of a canton, in the diltridlof 
Rambervillcr : two leagues north of Epinal. 
DOME'VRE sous AVIERE, a town of France, in 
the department of the Vofges, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftridt of Epinal: one league north-weft of 
Epinal. 
DOMFRO'NT, a town of France, and principal place 
of a diftridt, in the department of the Orne, lituated on 
a mountain near the river Varenne, containing about 1700 
inhabitants: ten leagues weft-north-weft of Alenjon. Lat. 
48. 35. N. Ion. 17. 1. E. Ferro. 
DOMESTI'CITY,yi The ftate of being a fervant, a 
fervile condition. Scott. 
DOMES'TICNESS, f. The ftate of being domeftic. 
Scott. 
DOMlCEL'LUSjy. an obfolete Latin word, anciently 
given as an appellation or addition to the king’s natural 
fons in France, and fometimes to the eldeft fons of noble¬ 
men there ; from whence we borrowed thefe additions : 
as feveral natural children of John of Gaunt, duke of 
Lancafter, are ftiled domictlli by the charter of legitima¬ 
tion. 20 Rich. II. But, according to Thorn, the domicelli 
were only the better forts of fervants in monafteries. 
DOMICI'LIARY, adj. [from domicile, Fr.] Intruding 
into private houfes.—Supervifors of domiciliary vilitation. 
Burke. 
DOMIDU'CUS, a god who prefided over marriage. 
Juno alfo was called Domiduca , from the power Ihe was 
fuppofed to have in marriages. 
To DO'MIFY, v. a. [domifico, Lat.] To tame. 
DO'MINA,y. A title given to honourable women, who 
anciently, in their own right of inheritance, held a barony. 
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DO'MINANT, adj. \_dominant, Fr. dominans, Lat.] Pre¬ 
dominant ; prefiding ; afcendant. 
To DO'MINATE, v. a. Idominatus, Lat.] To predo¬ 
minate ; to prevail over the reft : 
I thus conclude my theme, 
The dominating humour makes the dream. Dryden. 
DOMINA'TION,/! \_dominatio, Lat.] Power; domi¬ 
nion. Tyranny; infolent authority : 
Thou and thine ufurp 
The domination , royalties, and rights, 
Of this opprelfed boy. Shakefpcarc. 
One highly exalted in power ; ufed of angelic beings : 
Hear, all ye angels, progeny of light, 
Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, pow’rs. Milton. 
DO'MINATIVE, adj. Imperious; infolent. 
DOMINA'TOR, /. [Lat.] The prefiding or predo¬ 
minant power or influence.—Jupiter and Mars are domi. 
nators for this north-weft part of the world, which maketh 
the people impatient of fervitude, lovers of liberty, mar¬ 
tial, and courageous. Camden. 
To DOMINE'ER, v. n. [dominor, Lat.] To rule with 
infolence; to fwell; toblufter; to adt without controul. 
—The voice of confcience now is low and weak, chaftif- 
ing the paftions, as old Eli did his luftful domineering fons. 
South. 
Both would their little ends fecure; 
He fighs for freedom, fire for pow’r ; 
His wilhes tend abroad to roam, 
And hers to domineer at home. Prior. 
DOMIN'GO, or Saint Domingo, once the principal 
city of the extenfive ifiand of Hifpaniola, in the Weft In¬ 
dies ; which ifiand has been lately deluged with human 
blood, in confequence of a formidable and long-continued 
infurredtion of the negro (laves, mulattos, and men of 
colour: for particulars of which fee the articles Hispa¬ 
niola and Saint Domingo. 
DO'MINIC de GUSMAN, a faint in ihe Roman ca¬ 
lendar, and founder of the Dominican order of monks, 
born at Calaroga, in Old Caftile, in 1170. He preached 
witli great fury againft the Albigenfes in Languedoc, 
when pope Innocent III. made a croifade againft that 
utdiappy people ; and was made inquifitor in Languedoc, 
where he founded his order, and got it confirmed by the 
Lateran council in 1215. He died at Bologna in 1221, 
and was canonized fourteen years after his death, by pope 
Gregory IX. See Dominicans. 
DOMIN'ICA, a daughter of Petronius, who married 
the emperor Valens. 
DOMINI'CA, an ifiand of the Weft Indies, fo named 
by Chriftopher Columbus, from the circumftance of dif- 
covering if on Sunday, (November 3, 1493,) lituated be¬ 
tween Guadaloupe and Martinico ; about twenty-nine? 
miles in length, and fixteen in breadth, containing 186,436 
acres of land, and divided into ten parilhes. It contains 
many high and rugged mountains, among which are vol¬ 
canoes, that frequently difcharge eruptions. From fome 
of thefe mountains iftue fprings of hot water, whofe me¬ 
dicinal virtues are much commended. Dominica is well 
watered, there being upwards of thirty rivers in the ifiand, 
belides a great number of rivulets. The foil, in mod of 
the interior country, is a light brown-coloured mould, 
and appears to have been walked from the mountains. 
Towards the fea-coaft, and in many of the valleys, it is a 
deep, black, and rich, native earth, and feems well adapt¬ 
ed to the cultivation of all the articles of Weft-Indian 
produce. The under ftratum is, in fome parts, a yellow 
or brick clay, in others a ftiff terrace ; but it is in mod 
places very (tony. In the woods of Dominica are innu¬ 
merable fwarms of bees, which hive in the trees, and 
produce great quantities of wax and honey, both of which 
are equal in goodnefs to any in Europe. Dominica was 
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