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Domdaniel|dɒmˈdænɪəl|
[a. F. domdaniel, app. f. Gr. δῶµα Δανιήλ, or L. domus Danielis, hall or house of Daniel.
A fictitious name, introduced in the French ‘Continuation of the Arabian Nights’ by Dom Chaves and M. Cazotte 1788–93, whence adopted by Southey in Thalaba, and so by Carlyle. It is not clear whether ‘Daniel’ is intended to refer to the Hebrew prophet, or to ‘a great Grecian sage’ of that name who appears in the tale of ‘the Queen and the Serpents’ in the Arabian Nights.]
A fabled submarine hall where a magician or sorcerer met with his disciples: placed by Cazotte ‘under the sea near Tunis’, by Southey ‘under the roots of the ocean’; used by Carlyle in the sense of ‘infernal cave’, ‘den of iniquity’.
1801Southey Thalaba xii. xxiv, The Domdaniel rock'd Through all its thundering vaults. 1809Byron Bards & Rev. 213 Next see tremendous Thalaba come on..Domdaniel's dread destroyer. 1845Carlyle Cromwell (1871) I. 41 Spain was as a black Domdaniel. Ibid. 64 A grisly Law Pluto..kind of Infernal King, Chief Enchanter..in the Domdaniel of Attorneys. Ibid. IV. 138 Hurled..into the great Domdaniel of Spanish Iniquity in the far West. 1888Edinb. Rev. Oct. 408 At ease not in Zion only but in Domdaniel. |