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D — Doloroso to Dominical (Part 5 of 6)

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.