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- adjective Obsolete spelling of
domestic .
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Examples
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When fully drest, a Lady might have kept a Deformity out of Sight by means of a Muff or a Shawl, something impossible in the Course of ordinary domestick Life.
What is the sound of one hand on a children's TV show host? Ann Althouse 2009
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I ... hope, that, between publick business, improving studies, and domestick pleasures, neither melancholy nor caprice will find any place for entrance.
On between each DC 2009
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On marriage: Marriage is “much more necessary to a man than a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts.”
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On marriage: Marriage is “much more necessary to a man than a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts.”
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On marriage: Marriage is “much more necessary to a man than a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts.”
Boswell’s Life of Johnson, Reconsidered for the Age of Blogs « One-Minute Book Reviews 2006
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Sum kittehs lyk only indorz. otherz wantz to hunt an mark terrytori an all. no fare to imprison em indorz. an indorz or out, teh newtering makez teh domestick kitteh calm i fink. kittehz in goodest hoam still not leed teh natchrill lyf.
THIS IS A HARBL - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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He asked, if weaving the plaids was ever a domestick art in the Highlands, like spinning or knitting.
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But he conjectured probably, that where people lived so remote from each other, it was likely to be a domestick art; as we see it was among the ancients, from Penelope.
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The story of the Odyssey is interesting, as a great part of it is domestick.
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Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestick wisdom.
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