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long, and feven broad, of which Trevoux was the capi¬ 
tal. It is now part, of the department of the Ain. 
DOMBE'YA, f. [fo named in memory of Jof. Dom- 
bey, who travelled into Peru, Chili, &c.] In botany, a 
genus of the clafs dioecia, order monodelphia, natural 
order coniferx. The generic characters are—I. Male. 
Calyx : ament ovate-cylindric, imbricate, with very many 
woody fliort fcales, each terminated by a lanceolate, acute, 
coriaceous, leaflet, concave at the bottom, narrower and 
recurved at the top. Perianthium and corolla : none. Sta¬ 
mina: filaments none, except the amentaceous fcales; 
antherae ten or twelve, heaped about each amentaceous 
fcale, linear, grooved, the length of the fcale, faftened 
to the top of it, below' the leaflet by the upper extre¬ 
mity, approximating and converging round the fcale, fe- 
parating by the lower extremity when the fcale is broken. 
II. Female. Calyx: ament large, roundifh, ovate, clofe- 
ly imbricate, with very many germs, refembling fcales. 
Perianthium and corolla: none. Piftillum: germ each 
wedge-form-oblong, fubcompreffed, contra died at the bafe 
into a point, with a broad, thick, callous, termination ; 
ftyie none ; ftigma bivalve, the valves unequal; the in¬ 
ner very fmall, obtufe; the outer very large, broad at 
the bafe, thick, curved inwards above the inner one, ter¬ 
minated by a linear, acute, {lender, afcending, ftrap, al- 
raoll the length of the germ, bent in at a right angle 
above the germ. Pericarpium: none. Seeds: very many, 
heaped into a roundifh ftrobile, imbricate; each oblong, 
fnbcylindric, towards the bafe obtufely four-cornered, 
with a fhort broad fpatulate wing or ftrap at the top, 
thickened at the edge, incurved, afcending; the ffiell 
coriaceous, coloured, valvelefs; the kernel oblong - , fub- 
angular at the bafe ; receptacle naked, villofe, here and 
there alveolate.-— EJfential CharaEler. Male. Calyx of the 
ament fcales terminated by a leaflet; corolla, none ; an- 
theras, ten or twelve, without filaments. Female. Ca¬ 
lyx, ament with many germs; corolla, none; ftigma, bi¬ 
valve, unequal; feeds, many, in a roundifh ftrobile. 
‘ Bombeya Chilenfis, or Chilefe Dombeya, afingle fpe- 
cies : turbinate imbricate leaves, mucronated on one fide; 
the branches quaternate and cruciate. This is a tree as 
yet very little known ; a native of Chili, of a refinous 
nature, in fome refpefts allied to protea; aiulalfo to the 
pines in fome particulars of its frudlification. The trunk 
is ftraight, and of confiderable height ; the wood white, 
fo lid, and clothed with a kind of double bark. The 
boughs are covered with very numerous leaves, fertile, 
oval, very pointed, entire, fmooth, and coriaceous ; a 
little concave inwards, and convex outwards; they have 
a (harp point, and are ranged on the brandies in the man¬ 
ner of icales. The flowers are male and female, borne 
on different individuals, and hang in feflile folitary cat¬ 
kins from the tops of the branches. See Tourrettia. 
DOM'BOC,/. See Dome-book. 
DOMBROWAZ', a town of Poland, in the palatinate 
of Lemberg : fixty miles fouth-weft of Lemberg. 
DOMBROW'KEN, a town of Pruflia, in the province 
of Natangen : ten miles eaft of Nordenberg. 
DOME,yi [dome, Fr. from domus, Lat.] A building; 
a houfe ; a fabric. A hemifpherical arch ; a cupola. 
See Architecture, vol. ii. p. 8S. 
Stranger! whoe’er thou art, fecurely reft 
Affianc'd in my faith, a friendly gueft ; 
Approach the dome, the focial banquet ftiare. Pope. 
DOME, or Doom,/ [from bom, Sax. ] A judgment, 
fentence, or decree. Several words end in dom ; as, king¬ 
dom, earldom, C 3 c. from whence they may be applied to 
the jurildiition of a lord or a king. Mon. Angl. tom. i. 
p. 284. 
DOME-BOOK, f [Sax. liber judicially A book com- 
poled under the diredtion of Alfred the Great, contain- 
ing. the local cuftoms of the feveral provinces of the 
kingdom. This book is faid to have been extant fo late 
DOM 
as the reign of Edward IV. but it is now loft. It proba¬ 
bly contained the principal maxims of the common law, 
the penalties for mifdemeanors, and the forms of judicial 
proceedings. Thus much at lead: may be collected from 
the injunction to obferve it, which is found in the laws 
of Edward the Elder, fo/i of Alfred, c. 1. This book 
was compiled by Alfred for the ufe of the court-baron, 
hundred and County-court, the court-Ieet, and fhtiriff’s 
tourn. 1 Comm. 64. 
DOMENICHI'NO, or D omenic o Zampieri, a painter 
of great excellence, born at Bologna in 1581. His extra¬ 
ordinary turn for drawing, caufed him to be fent to the 
fchool firft of Calvart, and afterwards of the Carracci. 
Though extremely young, he carried off all the acade¬ 
mical prizes. He worked apart from the other pupils, 
and ftudied while they indulged in pleafure. He joined 
Albano at Rome, who lodged him in his houfe, and for 
two years defrayed his expences. Domenichino painted 
feveral pieces for his proteftor cardinal Aguechi. He fre¬ 
quently vifited Annibal Carracci, then employed in the 
Farnefe gallery. His Communion of St. Jerome, in the 
church della Carita, has been reckoned by great judges 
the next piece in merit to the Transfiguration of Raphael. 
Though he was a modeftand inoffenfive man, his fuperior 
merit perpetually raifed him enemies who rendered his 
life uneafy. He left Rome and went to Fano, and thence 
to his native city of Bologna, where lie employed two 
years on his famous pidture of the Rofary. He married 
there an amiable woman, who ferved him for a model in 
all his fublequent works. He was afterwards re-called to 
Rome by Gregory XV. who created him his firft painter, 
and architedt of the Vatican. He died in 1641, at the age 
of fixty, and was interred at the cathedral of Naples. 
DO'MENZAIN, a town of France, in tl^e department 
of the Lower Pyrenees, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftridt of Mauleon : feven miles north-north-weft of 
Mauleon. 
DOMES-MEN, f Judges, or men appointed to doom 
and determine fuits and controverfies ; hence ag deme, I 
deem, or judge. 
DO'MESDAY, or Domesday-Book, f [liber judid- 
anits, vel cenfualis Anglia-. ] A moft ancient record, made 
in the time of William I. called the Conqueror, and 
now remaining in the exchequer fair and legible, confid¬ 
ing of two volumes, a greater and a lefs ; the greater 
containing a furvey of all the lands in England, except 
the counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Weft, 
moreland, Durham, and part of Lancafliire, which it is 
faid were never furveyed ; and, excepting Elfex, Suffolk, 
and Norfolk; which three laft are comprehended in the 
leffer volume. There is alfo a third book, which differs 
from the others in form more than matter, made by the 
command of the fame king. And there is a fourth book 
kept in the exchequer whicli is called domefday ; and, 
though a very large volume, is only an abridgment of 
the others. Likewile a fifth book is kept in the remem¬ 
brancer’s office in the exchequer, which has the name of 
domefday, and is the very fame with the fourth, before 
mentioned. Our anceftors had many dome-books. King 
Alfred had a roll which he called domefday ; and the 
domefday-book made by William I. referred to the time 
of Edward the Confeffor, as that of king Alfred did to 
the time of Ethelred. The fourth book of domefday 
having many pictures, and gilt letters in the beginning, 
relating to the time of king Edward the Confeflor, this 
led him who made notes on Fitzherbert’s Regiftcr into 
a miftake in page 14, where he tells us, that liber domef¬ 
day fa [lusfuit tempore regis Edwardi. 
The book of domefday was begun by five juftices, af- 
figned for that purpofe in each county, in the year 10S1, 
and finiflied anno 1086. And the queftion whether lands 
are ancient demefne, or not, is to be decided by the 
domefday of William I. from whence there is no appeal i 
and it is a book of that authority, that even the Conque¬ 
ror 
