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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Doom

Do͞om, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. DOOMED; p. pr. & vb. n. DOOMING.] [See infra.]

  1. To form judgment; to judge; to decree; hence, to fix irrevocably, as by facts. [Obs.] “Him . . . thou didst not doom So strictly.” Milton.
  2. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to destine by way of penalty; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death.

Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls. Dryden. 3. To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine. Have I tongue to doom my brother's death? Shak.

  1. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. [New England.] Pickering.
  2. To destine; to fix irrevocably the fate or direction of; to fate.

A man of genius . . . doomed to struggle with difficulties. Macaulay.

Dōom, n.

noun

n. [A-S., O. Sax., Dan. & Sw. dom, Icel. domr, D. doem, Goth. doms, O. H. Ger. tom, tuom. See DEEM.]

Sense 1. Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment. [Obs.]

And there he learned of things and haps to come, To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom. Fairfax.

Sense 2. Judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation; determination affecting unfavorably one's state.

And now, without redemption, all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe. Milton.

Sense 3. That to which one is doomed or sentenced; penalty; retribution; unhappy fate or destiny.

Homely household task shall be her doom. Dryden.

From the same foes, at last, both felt their doom. Pope.

Synonyms— Sentence; condemnation; decree; fate; destiny; lot.