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/dəmˈɛstəkˌeɪtəd/ Listen

verb

Domesticate v. t. (past & past part. domesticated; pres. part. domesticating)

To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.

To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.

To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant.

adjective

domesticated adj.

Tame, tamed; of animals. Opposite of wild.

Synonyms: domestic.

Accustomed to home life; as, some men think it unmanly to be domesticated; others find gratification in it.

Acclimated to a new environment; of plants or animals.

Synonyms: naturalized, nonnative.

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Etymology of 'Domesticated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Domesticated" Quotes from Famous Books

... you have attained the stature of womanhood. You are looked upon as a candidate for admiration—as the rival of your beautiful sister. You will be flattered and courted, not as a child, but as a woman. The young man who has become, as it were, domesticated in your family, has extraordinary personal attractions, and every member of the household appears to have yielded to his influence. Were I as sure of his moral worth as of his outward graces, I would not say what I have done. But, with one doubt on my mind, ...

— Helen and Arthur - or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel • Caroline Lee Hentz

... study of the speech of animals, which will go hand in hand with the development of their intelligence. Both of these will claim much attention, but very inadequate results will be obtained until after you have tamed and domesticated the various species. You will want to discover how far animals can be educated and whether their intelligence can ever be developed into mind. As you progress in this study you will feel the necessity of understanding their conversation and you will learn what you can of their language. ...

— Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World • James Cowan

... color of the skin and in the form of the skull, which have been made known to us in recent times by the rapid progress of geographical knowledge—the analogies presented by the varieties in the species of many wild and domesticated animals—and the more correct observations collected regarding the limits of fecundity in hybrids. The greater number of the contrasts which were formerly supposed to exist have disappeared before the laborious researches of Tiedemann on the brain of negroes and of Europeans, and the ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. • Various

... unintentional humbuggery in some of the accounts we have from scientific men concerning the religious institutions of Polynesia. These learned tourists generally obtain the greater part of their information from retired old South-Sea rovers, who have domesticated themselves among the barbarous tribes of the Pacific. Jack, who has long been accustomed to the long-bow, and to spin tough yarns on the ship's forecastle, invariably officiates as showman of the island on which he has settled, and having mastered ...

— Typee - A Romance of the South Sea • Herman Melville

... tameness, failure might have been predicted, or, at least feared, and war (let us call it war for the sake of our pride) was due to Ireland before she could enter gallantly on her inheritance. We might have crept into liberty like some kind of domesticated man, whereas now we may be allowed to march into freedom with the honours of war. I am still appealing to the political imagination, for if England allows Ireland to formally make peace with her that peace will be lasting, everlasting; but if the liberty you give us is all half-measures, ...

— The Insurrection in Dublin • James Stephens

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