English

Verb

dompt ‎(third-person singular simple present dompts, present participle dompting, simple past and past participle dompted)

1. (transitive) To hold off; to keep at bay.
   • 1977, Grahame Clark, World Prehistory: In New Perspective (page 236)

     Another knife-handle, this time of ivory from Gebel el-Arak, has been carved to show on one face combats between men and boats with standards and upturned ends and on the other a man dompting two lions.

   • 1987, Ann Elizabeth Farkas, ‎Prudence Oliver Harper, ‎Evelyn Byrd Harrison, Monsters and Demons in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (page 16)

     For unknown reasons, the motif of a dompted pair of serpo-felines became the emblem of Cusae, a town in Middle Egypt […]