a. [ L. domesticus, fr. domus use: cf. F. domestique. See 1st Dome. ] 1. Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. [ 1913 Webster ]

His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant. [ 1913 Webster ]

The master labors and leads an anxious life, to secure plenty and ease to the domestic. V. Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. (Com.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Domestic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Our private and domestical matter. Sir. P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A family; a household. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Forming part of the same family. [ Obs. ] Sir E. Dering. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Domesticated; p. pr. & vb. n. Domesticating. ] [ LL. domesticatus, p. p. of domesticare to reside in, to tame. See Domestic, a. ] 1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild animals; to domesticate a plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. tame, tamed; -- of animals. Opposite of wild.
Syn. -- domestic. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. accustomed to home life; as, some men think it unmanly to be domesticated; others find gratification in it. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. acclimated to a new environment; -- of plants or animals.
Syn. -- naturalized, nonnative. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. domestication. ] The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who domesticates. [ 1913 Webster ]