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domiciliate

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[dom-uh-sil-ee-ayt] / ˌdɒm əˈsɪl iˌeɪt /

verb (used with object)

domiciliated, domiciliating
  1. to domicile.


verb (used without object)

domiciliated, domiciliating
  1. to establish a residence for oneself or one's family.

Other Word Forms


Etymology

Origin of domiciliate

1770–80; < Latin domicili ( um ) domicile + -ate 1


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It is hardly domiciliated, being a new-comer, and creeps restlessly across the glass.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 by Various

Frank dickers with him in his counting-room, Tommy chases him in the play-ground, Mrs. Asmodeus makes him a fashionable call, and—God help us all!—we sometimes find him sitting domiciliated at our hearthstones.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various

When his affairs began to be straitened, he was invited by the celebrated Madame de la Sablière to make her house his home; and there, in fact, he was thoroughly domiciliated for twenty years.

From Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Elizur Wright

However, as the English in Ireland began to be domiciliated, they began also to recollect that they had a country.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

In the first affidavit it was deposed that Mr. Gourlay had been domiciliated at Queenston for more than nine months, and that the deponent verily believed him to be a natural-born subject of Great Britain.

From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by John Charles Dent

Caxton had the merit of introducing the Roman pointing as used in Italy; and his successor, Pynson, triumphed by domiciliating the Roman letter.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

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