domify

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English

Etymology

From Middle French domifier.

Verb

domify (third-person singular simple present domifies, present participle domifying, simple past and past participle domified)

  1. (astrology, obsolete) To divide (the heavens) into different astrological houses.
    • 1842, Encyclopædia Britannica, volume VIII, page 101:
      There are various ways of domifying. That of Regiomontanus, which is the most common, makes the circles of position pass through the intersections of the meridian and the horizon; but others make them pass through the poles of the zodiac.
  2. (obsolete) To tame; to domesticate.
    • February 18 1814, letter to Richard Peters:
      Its vagrant habit was changed; and it became entirely stationary, and domified

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