domiciliar

1. Pertaining to a home or domicile; domiciliary.

   By far the greatest need, it seems to me to be, is that of a domiciliar level of care.

   1981, United States Congress House Select Committee on Aging, Impact of the Fiscal Year 1982 Budget on Programs for the Elderly in Memphis, page 74

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   Not redemonstrating the most fit and exact hexagons and rhomboids that comprise the domiciliar constructions of the bee, " Straight as Du Moine, without rule or line," we cannot forbear to notice the extraordinary reach of provisionary forethought exemplified by the tiny ant.

   1845, Samuel Dickinson Burchard, The Laurel Wreath, page 332

   Having dug up the precious papers, which she found in a state of perfect preservation, she despatched them to Traquair, and returned thither herself, just in time to escape a domiciliar visit from the magistrates of Dumfris.

   1885 August 22, “Winifred, Countess of NIthsdaill”, in Littell's Living Age, volume 166, page 455

   In this view, numerous provisions are made by the statutes of various States authorizing the payment of legacies and distributive shares to the representatives of non-resident infants duly authorized under the laws of the domicil; the appropriation of money to be paid to the domiciliar guardians for the education and support of such non-resident infants, and the sale of their real estate, if the personal estate be insufficient;

   1897, John Gabriel Woerner, A Treatise on the American Law of Guardianship of Minors and Persons of Unsound Mind, page 86

   The mayor of the commune in which the child is domiciled is the competent authority to issue the work book; if the child was not born in the commune in which he or she works, the mayor of the domiciliar commune sends to the mayor of the commune in which the child was born for the information necessary to prepare the work book.

   1910, Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, page 194

2. Innate; from within.

   And these various fears, arising from periodicity, disgust, ritual, convention, the idea of property, and the domiciliar instinct of repugnance, roused emotions to which the familiar phenomenon of the blush gives expression, and upon which it reacts with a stimulating and auxiliary power.

   1906, Hugh Northcote, Christianity and Sex Problems, page 7

3. biologyPertaining to a shell or carapace.

   This is also done for Dizygopleura landesi Roth and Eukloedenella pontotocensis Lundin, new species, which illustrate domiciliar (kloedenellid) dimorphism.

   1965, Robert F. Lundin, Bulletin - Issue 108, page 18

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   In forms with a modified outer antral fence, both this and the adjacent distal band of the domiciliar wall may be concave and form the antrum (Figs. 6 J-K; 7 B), and in some forms the antrum apparently is formed by the dolon alone (dolonal antrum).

   1964, GFF - Volume 86, page 343

   The genus Saipanetta has been suggested to be a surviving relict of the metacopidan superfamily Healdiacea because of its muscle scar pattern and narrow duplicature; nevertheless, it differs from the Metacopida in its more complex hingement, lack of a distinct contact groove, exaggerated domiciliar asymmetry, and lack of posterior ridges or angulations.

   1978, Philip D. Gingerich, New Condylarthra (Mammalia) from the Paleocene and Early Eocene of North America, page 289

   The setal arrangement in Puncia therefore could represent an evolutionary intermediate step appropriate to a wide-gaped ostracod, in which a domiciliar 'early warning' system is afforded by the frill and extremely long setae.

   1991, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Volumes 31-32, page 83

   According to the latter authors, domatial dimorphism takes the form of a special posterior domiciliar space for egg/brood care in females, and is found in extant ostracods such as cytherellids and the podocopid Cyprideis lineage as well as in extinct Palaeozoic groups such as kloedenellids, monotiopleurids and leperditellids.

   1998, Koen Martens, Sex and Parthenogenesis, page 188

plural domiciliars

1. historicalA member of a household; a domestic, especially one who belongs to a religious community.

   The Chapter is composed of 12 Canons and 12 Domiciliars.

   1738, The Present State of Germany.

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   To this Cathedral belongs a Chapter, consisting of 54 Canons, 24 of whom have the Right of suffrage, and are called Capitulars; the other 30 are called Domiciliars; but their Income, which is 3000 German Crowns, is equal.

   1743, de Blainville, Travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and other parts of Europe, page 247

   The dean of Strasburg, the prebendaries, the capitulars and domiciliars (capitularly assembled in the morning to consider the case of butter'd buns) all wished they had followed the nuns of saint Ursula's example.

   1770, Laurence Sterne, The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, page 76

   Bamberg: Provost, dean, ecolatre, treasurer, cellarer, twenty capitulars, fifteen domiciliars, who must not miss a mass daily during two years .

   1865, Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott, Cathedralia, page 24

   My Dear Mother, and All Good Domiciliars,— I suppose it to be the intention of our worshipful and right bankrupt Government that everybody write to everybody true, full, and particular accounts of all things which he, she, or it, may have done, be doing, or be about to do; and seeing I amy have something to way which will interest you all, I fulfil the gossiping intentions of the Collective Wisdom, and give you an omnibus epistle.

   1886, Martin Farquhar Tupper, My Life as an Author, page 39

2. A resident; someone who makes their home in a specified place; a domiciliary.

   On 20 May 1536 he registered at the University of Freiburg with his charge, Count Konrad von Castell, aged seventeen and a domiciliar of Würzburg.

   2003, Peter G. Bietenholz, Thomas Brian Deutscher, Contemporaries of Erasmus, page 224

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   A new law on this subject would seem at the first view less necessary, as the obligation on a man of protecting his house, in the place where he is a domiciliar, has already existed: but the events that have occurred within these thirteen years have caused this principle to be neglected; and though all the successive laws have maintained this obligation , the formation of the burgess guard in a permanent manner, and agreeably to the ancient habits of the nation, has never been able to be accomplished during that period.

   1820, Louis Bonaparte, Historical Documents and Reflections on the Government of Holland, page 87

   Our argument on that is the decedent believed he became a domiciliar of Greenwich on December 17, 1936; he was going out there looking at houses and he was abandoning his Ardsley life.

   1942, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs, page 2473