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domiciliar

domiciliar adjective: pertaining to a home or domicile; domiciliary.

Adjective

domiciliar

  1. Pertaining to a home or domicile; domiciliary.
    • Not redemonstrating the most fit and exact hexagons and rhomboids that comprise the domiciliar constructions of the bee, " Straight as Du Moine, without rule or line," we cannot forbear to notice the extraordinary reach of provisionary forethought exemplified by the tiny ant.1845, Samuel Dickinson Burchard, The Laurel Wreath, page 332
    • Having dug up the precious papers, which she found in a state of perfect preservation, she despatched them to Traquair, and returned thither herself, just in time to escape a domiciliar visit from the magistrates of Dumfris.1885 August 22, “Winifred, Countess of NIthsdaill”, in Littell's Living Age, volume 166, page 455
  2. Innate; from within.
    • And these various fears, arising from periodicity, disgust, ritual, convention, the idea of property, and the domiciliar instinct of repugnance, roused emotions to which the familiar phenomenon of the blush gives expression, and upon which it reacts with a stimulating and auxiliary power.1906, Hugh Northcote, Christianity and Sex Problems, page 7
  3. Pertaining to a shell or carapace.
    • In forms with a modified outer antral fence, both this and the adjacent distal band of the domiciliar wall may be concave and form the antrum (Figs. 6 J-K; 7 B), and in some forms the antrum apparently is formed by the dolon alone (dolonal antrum).1964, GFF - Volume 86, page 343
    • This is also done for Dizygopleura landesi Roth and Eukloedenella pontotocensis Lundin, new species, which illustrate domiciliar (kloedenellid) dimorphism.1965, Robert F. Lundin, Bulletin - Issue 108, page 18

Noun

domiciliar (plural domiciliars)

  1. (historical) A member of a household; a domestic, especially one who belongs to a religious community.
    • The Chapter is composed of 12 Canons and 12 Domiciliars.1738, The Present State of Germany.
    • To this Cathedral belongs a Chapter, consisting of 54 Canons, 24 of whom have the Right of suffrage, and are called Capitulars; the other 30 are called Domiciliars; but their Income, which is 3000 German Crowns, is equal.1743, de Blainville, Travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and other parts of Europe, page 247
  2. A resident; someone who makes their home in a specified place; a domiciliary.
    • A new law on this subject would seem at the first view less necessary, as the obligation on a man of protecting his house, in the place where he is a domiciliar, has already existed: but the events that have occurred within these thirteen years have caused this principle to be neglected; and though...1820, Louis Bonaparte, Historical Documents and Reflections on the Government of Holland, page 87
    • Our argument on that is the decedent believed he became a domiciliar of Greenwich on December 17, 1936; he was going out there looking at houses and he was abandoning his Ardsley life.1942, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs, page 2473

Examples of domiciliar in a sentence

  • By far the greatest need, it seems to me to be, is that of a domiciliar level of care.1981, United States Congress House Select Committee on Aging, Impact of the Fiscal Year 1982 Budget on Programs for the Elderly in Memphis...
  • Bamberg: Provost, dean, ecolatre, treasurer, cellarer, twenty capitulars, fifteen domiciliars, who must not miss a mass daily during two years .1865, Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott, Cathedralia, page 24:
  • On 20 May 1536 he registered at the University of Freiburg with his charge, Count Konrad von Castell, aged seventeen and a domiciliar of Würzburg.2003, Peter G. Bietenholz, Thomas Brian Deutscher, Contemporaries of Erasmus, page 224:

Forms of domiciliar

pluraldomiciliars

Origin of domiciliar

From domicile + -ar.

Words formed from domiciliar

Questions about domiciliar

What does domiciliar mean?
Domiciliar means pertaining to a home or domicile; domiciliary.
How do you use domiciliar in a sentence?
By far the greatest need, it seems to me to be, is that of a domiciliar level of care.
What part of speech is domiciliar?
Domiciliar can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near domiciliar in the dictionary

  1. domicilable
  2. domicile
  3. domiciled
  4. domicilement
  5. domiciles
  6. domiciliar
  7. domiciliaries
  8. domiciliarily
  9. domiciliars
  10. domiciliary
  11. domiciliate

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