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noun

Domicile n.

An abode or mansion; a place of permanent residence, either of an individual or a family.

(Law) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode.

verb

Domicile v. t. (past & past part. domiciled; pres. part. domiciling) To establish in a fixed residence, or a residence that constitutes habitancy; to domiciliate.

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"Domicile" Quotes from Famous Books

... they remained for three months; and when they were demanded, we had to undertake a serious search, so completely had their existence and whereabouts been lost to our lightened spirits. In the mean time we had grasped the elementary fact that they would be required only on a change of domicile. By dint of experience we learned various other facts, which I may as well summarize ...

— Russian Rambles • Isabel F. Hapgood

... restricted limits of Methodism, and shone in it with an unflagging brilliancy altogether beyond the traditions of Tyre. Delightful as she was in other people's houses, she was still more naively fascinating in her own quaint and somewhat harum-scarum domicile; and the drab, two-storied, tin-roofed little parsonage might well have rattled its clapboards to see if it was not in dreamland—so gay was the company, so light were the hearts, which it sheltered in these new days. As for Theron, the period was one of incredible ...

— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic

... locality. But the presence of a ghost in a house creates a very different state of affairs. It appears and disappears at its own sweet will, with a total disregard for our feelings: it seems to be as much part and parcel of the domicile as the staircase or the hall door, and, consequently, nothing short of leaving the house or of pulling it down (both of these solutions are not always practicable) will free us absolutely ...

— True Irish Ghost Stories • St John D Seymour

... five years after I saw that sweet face in reality—saw it in the flesh; saw that pomp of womanhood; saw that cottage; saw a thousand times that lovely domicile that heard the cooing of the solitary dove in the solitary morning; saw the grace of childhood and the shadows of graves that lay, like creatures asleep, in the sunshine; saw, also, the horror, somehow realized as a shadowy reflection ...

— The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 (2 vols) • Thomas De Quincey

... first thing must be to get him into bed again—at Callender House, since nothing could induce him to let sister, sweetheart or grandmother know he had not got away. To hurt his pride the more, in every direction military squads with bayonets fixed were smartly fussing from one small domicile to another, hustling out the laggards and marching them to encampments on the public squares. Other squads—of the Foreign Legion, appointed to remain behind in "armed neutrality"—patroled the sidewalks strenuously, preserving order with a high hand. Down this street drums roared, fifes squealed ...

— Kincaid's Battery • George W. Cable

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