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domesticate, v.|dəˈmɛstɪkeɪt, dəʊ-|
[f. ppl. stem of med.L. domesticāre to dwell in a house, to accustom (Du Cange), f. domestic-us domestic: cf. F. domestiquer (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. trans.
a. To make, or settle as, a member of a household; to cause to be at home; to naturalize.
a1639[see domesticated]. a1773Chesterfield (Mason), Domesticate yourself there, while you stay at Naples. 1862Goulburn Educ. World in Replies Ess. & Rev. 9 It domesticated many of them in different parts of the heathen world. 1878Gladstone Prim. Homer vii. 97 An element in the Greek nation originally foreign, but now domesticated.
b. transf. and fig. To make to be or to feel ‘at home’; to familiarize.
1841–4Emerson Ess., Art Wks. (Bohn) I. 150, I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me. 1874Sayce Compar. Philol. v. 179 The mental faculties of one people are domesticated, as it were, into the ways of thought of another.
2. To make domestic; to attach to home and its duties.
1741Richardson Lett. Impt. Occasions cxli. 187 Childbed matronizes the giddiest Spirits..it domesticates her, as I may say. 1748― Clarissa Wks. 1883 VIII. 437 A circumstance which generally lowers the spirit of the ladies, and domesticates them. 1863M. A. Power Arab. Days & N. 130 [They] easily become domesticated (as lady-companions and housekeepers now describe themselves in advertisements to be). 1895Westm. Gaz. 25 July 2/3 The efforts which are being made to domesticate the teaching.
3. To accustom (an animal) to live under the care and near the habitations of man; to tame or bring under control; transf. to civilize.
1641Earl of Monmouth tr. Biondi's Hist. Civ. Warres i. iv-v. 145 Ireland, where the wisedome and valour of the Duke of Yorke had domesticated a savage people. 1805J. Luccock Nat. Wool 29 The first flock, which is minutely described..was perfectly domesticated. 1859Darwin Orig. Spec. i. (1873) 14 There is hardly a tribe so barbarous, as not to have domesticated at least the dog.
†4. intr. (for refl.) To live familiarly or at home (with); to take up one's abode. Obs.
1767H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1859) I. 305, I would rather..see her married to some honest and tender-hearted man, whose love might induce him to domesticate with her. 1796Coleridge (title of poem) To a young friend, on his proposing to domesticate with the author. 1812Shelley in Dowden Life (1887) I. 230, I shall try to domesticate in some antique feudal castle. 1818Keats Let. 16 Dec. (1958) II. 4 With Dilke and Brown I am quite thick—with Brown indeed I am going to domesticate—that is we〈e〉 shall keep house together. 1850Thackeray Pendennis II. xxi. 210 He became a good deal under the influence of his uncle's advice, and domesticated in Lady Clavering's house. |