Crossword clues for domesticate
domesticate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Domesticate \Do*mes"ti*cate\, 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.]
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, of animals; 1741, of persons, "to cause to be attached to home and family;" from Medieval Latin domesticatus, past participle of domesticare "to tame," literally "to dwell in a house," from domesticus (see domestic). Related: Domesticated; domesticating.
Wiktionary
n. An animal or plant that has been domesticated. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make domestic. 2 (context transitive English) To make fit for domestic life. 3 (context transitive English) To adapt to live with humans. 4 (context intransitive English) To adapt to live with humans. 5 (context transitive English) To make a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
WordNet
v. adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" [syn: cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame]
overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons" [syn: domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame]
make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog" [syn: tame]
Usage examples of "domesticate".
The direct actionists are a warning to the Socialist Party that its tactics and its program are not adequate to domesticating the deepest unrest of labor.
But Alice had long ago evinced a passion for bluepoints, and so I had ordered them to humor her as a kind of token that while I might be stern and ruthless within the walls of the Snuggery, here in my own quarters as her domesticated husband-to-be, I was the very soul of thoughtfulness.
These huge, ponderous, and lethargic beasts of burden, Bozo knew, are most commonly domesticated by man, and are used to draw wains, much in the manner of oxen.
I looked at the high meat racks, some with tiers, some twenty feet or more in height, to protect the meat from sleen, both those domesticated and the wild sleen that might prowl to the shores as the hunting, the leems hibernating, grew sparse inland.
Tran Quock Cong returned to his family and discovered that his wife and two daughters had domesticated two wild creatures.
Back in Europe, after seven centuries of Mongol dominance, they have become citified, domesticated, sippers of wine, theatergoers, cultivators of gardens, but here they follow the ways of their all-conquering forefathers.
These individual differences are highly important for us, as they afford materials for natural selection to accumulate, in the same manner as man can accumulate in any given direction individual differences in his domesticated productions.
Mackenzie waited for some sign that Bounder had tired of being domesticated and was ready to assert himself.
Department of Agriculture, domesticated ruminants in the late twentieth century were generating more than eighty-five million tons of methane a year.
And this conjecture is the more likely in the light of the later appearance of domesticated fire, not only in the high Neanderthal bear sanctuaries but also in the context of the Ainu bear festivals, where it is identified explicitly with the manifestation of a goddess.
Longarm and Miranda worked their way deeper into the cavern, back where they had been told that the Anasazi kept their domesticated turkeys penned and also deposited their refuse.
Like most farmers, Harry knew that her best friends apart from the domesticated animals were owls, blacksnakes, bats, honeybees, praying mantises, most spiders, swallowtails, and purple martins.
In a state bigger than Texas, with most of its lands accessible only by floatplane, the wildernesses of Alaska made the wild places of the lower states seem like nothing more than Disney theme parks: domesticated, crowded, commercialized.
Since Veig had domesticated the ants and the pepsis wasp, hunting had become a sport rather than a necessity.
At some future time they meant to explore it more carefully, and it was probable that some of the birds there might be domesticated, or at least brought to the shores of the lake, so that they would be more within their reach.