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<blockquote>The personal and <b>domiciliary</b> rights of the citizen scrupulously guarded. <i>Motley.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Domiciliary visit</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>a visit to a private dwelling, particularly for searching it, under authority.</cd></cs>

<h1>Domiciliate</h1> <Xpage=444>

<hw>Dom`i*cil"i*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Domiciliated</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Domiciliating</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[See <er>Domicile</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To domesticate.</def>

<i>Pownall.</i>

<h1>Domiciliation</h1> <Xpage=444>

<hw>Dom`i*cil`i*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy.</def>

<i>Milman.</i>

<h1>Domiculture</h1> <Xpage=444>

<hw>Dom"i*cul`ture</hw> <tt>(?; 135)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>domus</ets> house + E. <ets>culture</ets>. See 1st <er>Dome</er>.]</ety> <def>The art of house-keeping, cookery, etc.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>R. Park.</i>

<h1>Domify</h1> <Xpage=444>

<hw>Dom"i*fy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>domus + -fy</ets>: cf. F. <ets>domifier</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Astrol.)</fld> <def>To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See <er>House</er>, in astrological sense.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To tame; to domesticate.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<h1>Domina</h1> <Xpage=444>

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

<i>Burrill.</i>

<h1>Dominance, Dominancy</h1> <Xpage=444>

<hw><hw>Dom"i*nance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Dom"i*nan*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <def>Predominance; ascendency; authority.</def>

<h1>Dominant</h1> <Xpage=444>

<hw>Dom"i*nant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>dominans</ets>, <ets>-antis</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>dominari</ets>: cf. F. <ets>dominant</ets>. See <er>Dominate</er>.]</ety> <def>Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; <as>as, the <ex>dominant</ex> party, church, spirit, power</as>.</def>

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

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

<syn>Syn. -- Governing; ruling; controlling; prevailing; predominant; ascendant.</syn>

<h1>Dominant</h1> <Xpage=444>

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