domage
See also: domaĝe
English
Etymology
See damage.
Noun
domage (countable and uncountable, plural domages)
- (obsolete) damage; hurt
- 1614–1615, Homer, “The Thirteenth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume II, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
- What delight hath heaven,
That lives unhurt it selfe, to suffer given
Up to all domage those poore few that strive
To imitate it and like the Deities live?
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- (obsolete) subjugation
- 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC:
- extort a greater Value from his Contemners by Domage
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References
domage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
Middle English
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