3. Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne. Shenstone.
4. (Law)
Defn: Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership. Public domain, the territory belonging to a State or to the general government; public lands. [U.S.]in the public domain may be used by anyone wihout restriction. — Right of eminent domain, that superior dominion of the sovereign power over all the property within the state, including that previously granted by itself, which authorizes it to appropriate any part thereof to a necessary public use, reasonable compensation being made.
DOMAL
Do"mal, a. Etym: [L. domus house.] (Astrol.)
Defn: Pertaining to a house. Addison.
DOMANIAL
Do*ma"ni*al, a.
Defn: Of or relating to a domain or to domains.
DOME
Dome, n. Etym: [F. dôme, It. duomo, fr. L. domus a house, domus Dei
or Domini, house of the Lord, house of God; akin to Gr. timber. See
Timber.]
1. A building; a house; an edifice; — used chiefly in poetry. Approach the dome, the social banquet share. Pope.
2. (Arch.)