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adjective

Domestic adj.

Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. "His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong."

Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions.

Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.

Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.

Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.

noun

Domestic n.

One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant. "The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic."

pl. (Com.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. (U. S.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Domestic" Quotes from Famous Books

... selection [surely this is a slip for "by the theory of descent with modification"] all living species have been connected with the parent species of each genus, by differences not greater than we see between the natural and domestic varieties of the same species at the present day; and their parent species, now generally extinct, have in their turn been similarly connected with more ancient forms, and so on backwards, always converging to the common ancestor of each ...

— Evolution, Old & New - Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, - as compared with that of Charles Darwin • Samuel Butler

... see that the work contemplated must have been of a general character, from Jonson's letters to Drummond on the subject of it. How much to be regretted that we have not the Scotland of that day delineated by so vigorous a pen as that of the author of Sejanual"—Chambers' Domestic Annals of ...

— The Pennyles Pilgrimage - Or The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor • John Taylor

... all in as unnatural a mood as if they were posing for a photograph. I wonder who invented this sort of thing? Do you know," said the old man, "that I think it's rather worse with us than with any other people? We're a simple, sincere folk, domestic in our instincts, not gregarious or frivolous in any way; and when we're wrenched away from our firesides, and packed in our best clothes into Jane's gilded saloons, we feel vindictive; we feel wicked. When the Boston being abandons himself— or herself—to ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... apprehension by one of Dr. Johnson's admirable sentences in his life of Waller: 'He doubtless praised many[166] whom he would have been afraid to marry; and, perhaps, married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours to bestow; and many airs and sallies may delight imagination, which he who ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell

... well-known fact that man can, by pursuing a certain method of breeding or cultivation, improve and in various ways modify the character of the different domestic animals and plants. By always selecting the best specimen from which to propagate the race, those features which it is desired to perpetuate become more and more developed; so that what are admitted to be real varieties sometimes acquire, in the course of successive generations, ...

— Was Man Created? • Henry A. Mott

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