1. To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.
2. To domesticate. Pownall.
Domiciliation
(Dom`i*cil`i*a"tion) n. The act of domiciliating; permanent residence; inhabitancy. Milman.
Domiculture
(Dom"i*cul`ture) n. [L. domus house + E. culture. See 1st Dome.] The art of house-
keeping, cookery, etc. [R.] R. Park.
Domify
(Dom"i*fy) v. t. [L. domus + - fy: cf. F. domifier.]
1. (Astrol.) To divide, as the heavens, into twelve houses. See House, in astrological sense. [Obs.]
2. To tame; to domesticate. [Obs.] Johnson.
Domina
(||Dom"i*na) n. [L., lady. See Dame.] (O. Eng. Law) Lady; a lady; — a title formerly given to
noble ladies who held a barony in their own right. Burrill.
Dominance
(Dom"i*nance Dom"i*nan*cy) n. Predominance; ascendency; authority.
Dominant
(Dom"i*nant) a. [L. dominans, -antis, p. pr. of dominari: cf. F. dominant. See Dominate.]
Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power.
The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . .
but imperious, insolent, and cruel.
Macaulay. Dominant estate or tenement (Law), the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another
estate, the estate over which the servitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement. Bouvier.
Wharton's Law Dict. — Dominant owner (Law), one who owns lands on which there is an easement
owned by another.
Syn. — Governing; ruling; controlling; prevailing; predominant; ascendant.
Dominant
(Dom"i*nant), n. (Mus.) The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and
so on.
Dominant chord (Mus.), the chord based upon the dominant.
Dominate
(Dom"i*nate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dominated; p. pr. & vb. n. Dominating.] [L. dominatus,
p. p. of dominari to dominate, fr. dominus master, lord. See Dame, and cf. Domineer.] To predominate
over; to rule; to govern. "A city dominated by the ax." Dickens.
We everywhere meet with Slavonian nations either dominant or dominated.
W. Tooke. Dominate
(Dom"i*nate), v. i. To be dominant. Hallam.
Domination
(Dom`i*na"tion) n. [F. domination, L. dominatio.]
1. The act of dominating; exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority; often, arbitrary or
insolent sway.
In such a people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom.
Burke. 2. A ruling party; a party in power. [R.] Burke.
