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noun

Domicile n.

An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or a family.

(Law) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode.

verb

Domicile v. t. (past & past part. domiciled; pres. part. domiciling) To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate.

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Etymology of 'Domicile'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... discouraged and also somewhat shocked. I felt Filmer should have enlightened me more on the characteristics of his protege. The episode taught me to avoid preamble in my next quest for a domicile. Also I thought it only right to express myself with absolute frankness. The address of a lady with a reputation for a love of animals was given to me, and I hastened to call upon her. She answered ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, March 3rd, 1920 • Various

... the prominence of Lige Bemis in the town. When John left Sycamore Ridge to go to school, Bemis was a drunken sign-painter married to a woman who a few years before had been the scandal of half a dozen communities. And now though Mrs. Bemis was still queen only of the miserable unpainted Bemis domicile in the sunflowers at the edge of town, Lige Bemis politically was a potentate of some power. General Hendricks consulted Bemis about politics. Often he was found in the back room of the bank, and Colonel Culpepper, although he was an unterrified Democrat, in his campaign speeches referred to ...

— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White

... to the humaneness of Warden Atherton's administration. In fact, so touching were their testimonials to the kindness of the Warden, to the good and varied quality of the food and the cooking, to the gentleness of the guards, and to the general decency and ease and comfort of the prison domicile, that the opposition newspapers of San Francisco raised an indignant cry for more rigour in the management of our prisons, in that, otherwise, honest but lazy citizens would be seduced into seeking enrolment ...

— The Jacket (The Star-Rover) • Jack London

... the monument at Schuylerville we discovered that the birds had chosen the monument as a place for their nests. On General Gates' shoulder was a robin's nest, while another chose the center of an officer's hat for her domicile. Looking into the mouth of the twenty-four pounder presented by J. Watts de Peyster to the monument association, we discovered a blue bird's nest containing four eggs. This gun was at one time a part of the armament of a British ...

— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand

... "Behold the domicile of Pablo!" he said, with a magnificent gesture. "The property, with all it contains, of the senorita and the ...

— Rita • Laura E. Richards

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