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单词 domesticate
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domesticatev.

Brit. /dəˈmɛstᵻkeɪt/, U.S. /dəˈmɛstəˌkeɪt/
Etymology: < participial stem of medieval Latin domesticāre to dwell in a house, to accustom (Du Cange), < domesticus domestic adj. and n.: compare French domestiquer (15th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).
1. transitive.
a. To make, or settle as, a member of a household; to cause to be at home; to naturalize.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > do habitually [verb (transitive)] > render (a thing) habitual > naturalize
denize1577
denizen1577
naturalize1593
endenize1598
inhousehold1611
domesticate1750
a1639 [implied in: H. Wotton Let. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 366 Being now familiarized and domesticated evils. (at domesticated adj.)].
1750 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 29 Mar. in Lett. to Son (1774) II. 159 Domesticate yourself there while you stay at Naples.
1862 E. M. Goulburn Educ. World in Replies Ess. & Rev. 9 It domesticated many of them in different parts of the heathen world.
1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer vii. 97 An element in the Greek nation originally foreign, but now domesticated.
b. transferred and figurative. To make to be or to feel ‘at home’; to familiarize.
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1841 R. W. Emerson Art in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 364 I now require this of all pictures, that they domesticate me, not that they dazzle me.
1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. v. 179 The mental faculties of one people are domesticated, as it were, into the ways of thought of another.
2. To make domestic; to attach to home and its duties.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > attach to home
domesticate1741
domesticize1834
1741 S. Richardson Lett. Important Occas. cxli. 187 Childbed matronizes the giddiest Spirits..it domesticates her, as I may say.
1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) VIII. xl. 169 A circumstance which generally lowers the spirits of the Ladies, and domesticates them.
1863 M. A. Power Arabian Days & Nights 130 [They] easily become domesticated (as lady-companions and housekeepers now describe themselves in advertisements to be).
1895 Westm. Gaz. 25 July 2/3 The efforts which are being made to domesticate the teaching.
3. To accustom (an animal) to live under the care and near the habitations of man; to tame or bring under control; transferred to civilize.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [verb (transitive)] > tame or train
temec1000
tamec1315
faite1362
daunt1377
afaitea1393
reclaima1393
chastisec1400
makea1425
meekc1429
break1474
enter1490
train?1532
law1534
dressc1540
meeken1591
correct1594
subjugate1595
cicure1599
unwild1605
cicurate1606
mancipate1623
familiarize1634
domesticate1641
gentle1651
domesticize1656
civilize1721
educate1760
domiciliate1782
1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. v. 145 Ireland, where the wisedome and valour of the Duke of Yorke had domesticated a savage people.
1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 29 The first flock, which is minutely described..was perfectly domesticated.
1861 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 3) i. 18 There is hardly a tribe so barbarous, as not to have domesticated at least the dog.
4. intransitive (for reflexive). To live familiarly or at home (with); to take up one's abode. Obsolete.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence
wickc897
telda1325
buildc1340
nestlea1382
to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400
to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425
to take one's lodgec1475
reside1490
inhabit1548
to settle one's rest1562
to sit down1579
to set up (or in) one's staff (of rest)1584
to set (up) one's rest1590
nest1591
to set down one's rest1591
roost1593
inherit1600
habituate1603
seat1612
to take up (one's) residencea1626
settle1627
pitch1629
fix1638
locate1652
to marry and settle1718
domesticate1768
domiciliate1815
to hang up one's hat1826
domicile1831
to stick one's stakes1872
homestead1877
to put down roots1882
to hang one's hat1904
localize1930
1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xiii. 9 I would rather..see her married to some honest and tender hearted man, whose love might induce him to domesticate with her.
1796 S. T. Coleridge (title) To a young friend, on his proposing to domesticate with the author.
1812 P. B. Shelley in E. Dowden Life Shelley (1887) I. 230 I shall try to domesticate in some antique feudal castle.
1818 J. Keats Let. 16 Dec. (1958) II. 4 With Dilke and Brown I am quite thick—with Brown indeed I am going to domesticate—that is we〈e〉 shall keep house together.
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxi. 210 He became a good deal under the influence of his uncle's advice, and domesticated in Lady Clavering's house.

Draft additions June 2022

transitive. To translate (a text) in such a way that its foreign character is not retained or apparent; to remove the foreign character of (a translation). Contrasted with foreignize v. 2b.
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1995 L. Venuti Translator's Invisibility i. 41 As Schleiermacher realized long ago, the choice of whether to domesticate or foreignize a foreign text has been allowed only to translators of literary texts.
1997 D. Robinson What is Translation? ix. 108 It is impossible..to domesticate or foreignize a translation, because domesticity and foreignism..are reader-generated effects that the translator cannot reliably or predictably control.
2021 C. E. Lamas Latino Continuum & Nineteenth-cent. Americas ii. 79 Tolón..domesticates Willard's work when he translates it. Yet he simultaneously foreignizes it by including his own observations at key turns of the narrative.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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