The Collaborative International Dictionary
Halidom \Hal"i*dom\ (h[a^]l"[i^]*d[u^]m), n. [AS. h[=a]ligd[=o]m holiness, sacrament, sanctuary, relics; h[=a]lig holy + -d[=o]m, E. -dom. See Holy.]
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Holiness; sanctity; sacred oath; sacred things; sanctuary; -- used chiefly in oaths. [Archaic]
So God me help and halidom.
--Piers Plowman.By my halidom, I was fast asleep.
--Shak. Holy doom; the Last Day. [R.]
--Shipley.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) holiness; sanctity; sacred honour.
Usage examples of "halidom".
By my halidom, Comrade Gooch, that gentleman whose name you are so shortly to tell us has a very fair idea of how to charge!
Before the Disasters, in what the Halidomians were apt to refer to, wistfully, as "the good old days," Halidom and Troth had been much alike, with their fields of azure, their mulberry orchards, their castles set in gardens of fleer-de-lys, roses, trefoils, citrophilous and cinquefoils, their stately forests of pageant trees and family trees, and their abundance of animals.
His name was Halidom and he favored allografts: the introduction of inert substances into the living face.
With a gesture at the soundless, motionless, smokeless city below and halidoms around: "Spooky.
I have every one of the 539 best recipes in Halidom, as well as seventy-four from Troth-and that includes the Blue-Armor- Plate Special that Queen Paty always makes for King Armo on his birthday.