domify
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French domifier.
Verb
[edit]domify (third-person singular simple present domifies, present participle domifying, simple past and past participle domified)
- (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.
- (obsolete) To tame; to domesticate.
- February 18 1814, letter to Richard Peters[1]:
- Its vagrant habit was changed; and it became entirely stationary, and domified