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▪ I. domicile, n.|ˈdɒmɪsɪl, -saɪl|
Also 6–7 -cill(e, 7–9 -cil.
[a. F. domicile (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. domicili-um habitation, dwelling, deriv. of domus house.]
1. A place of residence or ordinary habitation; a dwelling-place, abode; a house or home. Also transf. the dwelling-place of an animal, and fig.
c1477Caxton Jason 36 Thalyaunce of my frende and of my domycille. 1549Compl. Scot. Epist. 7 Fureous mars, that hes violently ocupeit the domicillis of tranquil pace. 1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 55 Take..the whytest snayles, with their domicills. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. iii. §4 That part of learning which answereth to one of the cells, domiciles, or offices of the understanding; which is that of the memory. 1794Sir W. Jones Ord. Menu vi. 43 Let him have no culinary fire, no domicil. 1847Lewes Hist. Philos. (1867) I. 188 That a Tub could suffice for a domicile we may guess from Aristophanes. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiii. 53 To be with the snows, the wild beasts, in a wintery domicile.
2. Law. The place where one has his home or permanent residence, to which, if absent, he has the intention of returning.
1766–80Ld. Mansfield in Burrows Settlement Cases No. 134. 421 (Jod.) The master's place of abode, his domicil, can never be supposed to be at Scarborough. 1861W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. s.v., Where a company has a domicile in more than one country, the proceedings in bankruptcy in any one of the domiciles of the company comprehend the whole personal estate of the entire concern. 1875Poste Gaius iii. (ed. 2) 336 Domicil is the place which a man has voluntarily chosen for his permanent residence.
fig.1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) IX. xiv. v. 200 [The] first domicile [of the new Italian language] was the court of Fredrick II.
b. The fact of being resident; residence.
1835Tomlins' Law Dict. (ed. Granger) s.v. (L.), The residence of a party for forty days constitutes a domicile as to jurisdiction in Scotland. 1862Lond. Rev. 30 Aug. 180 The American domicile does not take away the power which the State to which the foreigner belongs possesses of interfering for his protection. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man 2 A place not only of domicile, but of sepulture.
3. Comm. The place at which a bill of exchange is made payable.
1892J. Adam Comm. Corr. 26 The bank or other place where a bill is made payable..is called the domicile of the bill, which is said to be domiciled there.
▪ II. ˈdomicile, v.
(see prec.)
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans. To establish in a domicile or fixed residence; to settle in a home.
1809Tomlins Law Dict. s.v. Domicile, The county in which he was domiciled at the time of his death. 1822J. Jekyll Let. 31 Dec. in Corr. (1894) 132 The Hollands were domiciled in Burlington Street. 1862Lond. Rev. 30 Aug. 180 Aliens who are domiciled in America without having become citizens in the fullest sense.
b. transf. and fig.
a1849J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 387 Souls wherein dull Time Could domicile decay or house Decrepitude. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece ix. 278 Medicine had been long domiciled at Athens.
2. Comm. To make (a bill of exchange, etc.) payable at a certain place.
1809R. Langford Introd. Trade 18 He should write on it with his acceptance, the address where it will be honoured; such bills are termed domiciled. 1882Bithell Counting-ho. Dict., s.v., All the Brazilian loans are said to be domiciled at Messrs. N. M. Rothschild & Sons.
3. intr. (for refl.). To have one's home, dwell.
1831Fraser's Mag. V. 2 She domiciles far down in pebbled well. 1834Medwin Angler in Wales I. 166 God forbid that the white ants should ever domicile here.
Hence ˈdomiciled ppl. a., ˈdomiciling vbl. n.; also ˈdomicilement, the act of domiciling or fact of being domiciled.
1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) IX. xiv. vii. 228 Each was a domiciled stranger. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Domiciled Bill, a bill not made payable at the residence or place of business of the acceptor, but directed for payment by the acceptor at the time of his acceptance. 1885Clodd Myths & Dr. i. iv. 71 After the domiciling of the stories. 1888Charity Organiz. Rev. Apr. 141 Laws of Aethelstan on the domicilement of lordless men. |