domify

present singular third person domifies · participle present domifying · participle past domified · past domified

1. obsoleteastrologyTo divide (the heavens) into different astrological houses.

   There are various ways of domifying. That of Regiomontanus, which is the most common, makes the circles of position pass through the intersections of the meridian and the horizon; but others make them pass through the poles of the zodiac.

   1842, Encyclopædia Britannica, volume VIII, page 101

2. obsoleteTo tame; to domesticate.

   Its vagrant habit was changed; and it became entirely stationary, and domified

   February 18 1814, letter to Richard Peters