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domal, a. (and n.)|ˈdəʊməl|
[ad. med.L. domāl-is (Du Cange), f. domus house: see dome, etc.]
1. Astrol. Of or pertaining to a dome or ‘house’.
1716Addison Drummer iii. i, Mars is now entering his first house, and will shortly appear in all his domal dignities. 1819J. Wilson Compl. Dict. Astrol., Domal dignity, when a planet is in its own house.
2. Of or pertaining to houses; domestic.
1728R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 3 Templar and Domal Architecture. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. 98/1 Principles of sanitation—personal, municipal, domal, etc.
3. Phonetics. (See quots.) Hence as n.
1919C. R. Lanman in Festgabe Adolf Kaegi 101 The derivative, domal..is useable as adjective or as substantive (domals). Ibid., The best English equivalent for mūrdhanya, ‘produced at the dome (of the palate)’, is clearly domal. 1933Bloomfield Lang. vi. 98 Apical articulation in the domal position (the tip of the tongue touching almost the highest point in the roof of the mouth). Ibid., In Sanskrit.., postdentals..and domals..are distinct phonemes. 1943K. L. Pike Phonetics vii. 123 A domal sound (i.e. cerebral, or cacuminal) implies that the tongue tip articulates somewhere behind the alveolar arch. 1962B. M. H. Strang Mod. Eng. Struct. iii. 30 Positions of articulation..domal (tongue tip to dome of palate).
4. Of, pertaining to, or shaped like a dome.
1928E. R. Lilley Geol. Petrol. & Natural Gas xii. 274 The Bald Hill Dome is one of the larger domal structures that are so common in northeastern Oklahoma. 1954W. D. Thornbury Princ. Geomorphology ix. 208 Most large domal structures are of rather ancient geologic age. 1971Nature 19 Feb. 538/1 A broad domal uplift of central Kenya of about 300 m in the late Miocene was suceeded by a major uplift of 1,400 m. |