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单词 domify
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domifyv.

Etymology: < French domifier (1558 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), < medieval Latin domificāre to build houses (13th cent. in Du Cange), < domus house: see -fy suffix.
Astrology. Obsolete.
transitive. To divide (the heavens) into twelve equal parts or ‘houses’ by means of great circles; to locate (the planets) in their respective ‘houses’.
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c1430 Lydgate's Bochas (1554) 222 I can..in the starres search out no difference By domifying, nor calculation.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure 40 Of the vi. planettes he knewe so perfytly The operacions, how they were domified.

Derivatives

domifiˈcation n. [so in French]
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1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 325 Jugling trickes, enchantments..prognostications, domifications.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Domifying, Domification, in Astrology, the dividing or distributing the Heavens into twelve Houses.
ˈdomifying n. and adj.
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1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus 390 Alcabitius would have the xii Houses of Heaven to be divided by Domifying Circles, or Circles of Position drawn from the Poles of the World through every 30th deg. of the Equator.
1728 [see domification n.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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