domify
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French domifier.
Verb
domify (third-person singular simple present domifies, present participle domifying, simple past and past participle domified)
- (astrology, obsolete) To divide (the heavens) into different astrological houses.
- 1842, Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. VIII, p. 101:
- There are various ways of domifying. That of Regiomontanus, which is the most common, makes the circles of position pass through the intersections of the meridian and the horizon; but others make them pass through the poles of the zodiac.
- 1842, Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. VIII, p. 101:
- (obsolete) To tame; to domesticate.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)