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Webster 1913 Edition


Domestic

Do-mes′tic

,
Adj.
[L.
domesticus
, fr.
domus
use: cf. F.
domestique
. See 1st
Dome
.]
1.
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.
Macaulay.
4.
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
.
Shak.
3.
Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures;
as, a
domestic
man or woman
.
4.
Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild;
as,
domestic
animals
.
5.
Made in one's own house, nation, or country;
as,
domestic
manufactures, wines, etc.

Do-mes′tic

,
Noun.
1.
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
.
V. Knox.
2.
pl.
(Com.)
Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods.
[U. S.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Domestic

DOMESTIC

,
Adj.
[L., a house.]
1.
Belonging to the house, or home; pertaining to ones place of residence, and to the family; as domestic concerns; domestic life; domestic duties; domestic affairs; domestic contentions; domestic happiness; domestic worship.
2.
Remaining much at home; living in retirement; as a domestic man or woman.
3.
Living near the habitations of man; tame; not wild; as domestic animals.
4.
Pertaining to a nation considered as a family, or to ones own country; intestine; not foreign; as domestic troubles; domestic dissensions.
5.
Made in ones own house, nation or country; as domestic manufactures.

DOMESTIC

,
Noun.
One who lives in the family of another, as a chaplain or secretary. Also, a servant or hired laborer, residing with a family.