Difference between revisions of "Domestic"

<p> (1): </p> <p> (a.) [[Remaining]] much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman. </p> <p> (2): </p> <p> (a.) 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. </p> <p> (3): </p> <p> (a.) 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. </p> <p> (4): </p> <p> (a.) [[Made]] in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc. </p> <p> (5): </p> <p> (n.) One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant. </p> <p> (6): </p> <p> (n.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. </p> <p> (7): </p> <p> (a.) Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals. </p>

<p> ("belonging to the house or household") has several ecclesiastical senses: </p> <p> (1) Domestici are all who belong to the "household of faith." </p> <p> (2) In the East, the principal dignitary in a church choir after the "chief singer." There was one on each side of the choir, to lead the singers in antiphonal chanting. </p> <p> (3) Domesticus Ostiorum ("of the doors"), the chief doorkeeper at Constantinople. See Smith, Dict. of Christ. Antiq. s.v. </p>