Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To provide with or establish in a domicile; fix in a place of residence.
- To render domestic; tame.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To establish in a permanent residence; to domicile.
- transitive verb To domesticate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
establish apermanent residence . - verb transitive To establish a permanent residence for (someone).
- verb transitive, figuratively To
settle (oneself) into a mode of thinking or the like.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make one's home in a particular place or community
- verb provide housing for
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Examples
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In sooth, the year in question had been very propitious to the immigrants; who, flocking in from eastern settlements in goodly numbers, were allowed to domiciliate themselves in their new homes, with but few exceptions, entirely unmolested by the savage foe.
Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life Emerson Bennett
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Until their return to domiciliate themselves under my roof, I never heard a complaint of my house, which was situated at Brompton.
Olla Podrida Frederick Marryat 1820
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To the Romantic sensibility such a [dualist] universe could not be endured, and the central enterprise common to many post-Kantian German philosophers and poets, as well as to Coleridge and Wordsworth, was to join together the ‘subject 'and ‘object' that modern intellection had put asunder, and thus to revivify a dead nature, restore its concreteness, significance, and human values, and re-domiciliate man in a world which had become alien to him.
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