Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
domestic . - Of a home-like character; of local origin.
- noun A family; a household.
- noun A domestic; a servant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Domestic.
- noun obsolete A family; a household.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Archaic form of
domestic . - adjective botany, archaic
Cultivated ; not growing wild. - adjective archaic
Homely ;familiar ;simple ;unsophisticated . - noun archaic A
household servant; a member of a household.
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Examples
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It is frightening to realize that there are American citizens who care more about a foreign countries 'right to exist' than they are willing to risk American lives, national interest and domestical economic stability to pursue those ends.
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Please turn TVE channel Spain and count the number of stories related with domestical abuses.
Think Progress » Pat Buchanan’s Anti-Hispanic Rhetoric Echoes Earlier Anti-Immigrant Hysteria 2006
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Here is noted, that in domestical separations and breaches men do promise to themselves quieting of their mind and contentment; but still they are deceived of their expectation, and it turneth to wind.
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The original proceedings and successe of the Northren domestical and forren trades and traffique of this Isle of Britain from the time of Nero the Emperour, who deceased in the yeere of our Lord 70. vnder the Romans, Britons, Saxons, and Danes, till the conquest: and from the conquest, vntill this present time, gathered out of the most authenticall histories and records of this nation.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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It is enough to know what the main crops are, where they are located, wh types of fertilizers are used, whether it is imported or made domestical
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And the man suddenly hollered out, "If the lady will attend to her domestical duties, I'll support her."
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This doth the comedy handle so in our private and domestical matters, as with hearing it we get as it were an experience, what is to be looked for of a niggardly Demea: of
English literary criticism Various
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No family as a family is either a church or any part of a church, (in the notion that church is here spoken of;) and though masters of families be governors in their own houses, yet their power is not ecclesiastical but economical or domestical, common to heathens as well as Christians.
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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KING Darius made a great supper to al his domestical seruantes, and to al the magistrates of Media and Persia, 2 and to al that were purple, and to the praetors, and counsuls, and liuetenantes vnder him from India vnto
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Sir _Philip Sidney_, the glory of the _English_ Nation in his time, and pattern of true Nobility, in whom the Graces and Muses had their domestical habitations, equally addicted both to Arts and Arms, though more fortunate in the one than in the other.
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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