domage

See also: domaĝe

English

Etymology

See damage.

Noun

domage (countable and uncountable, plural domages)

1. (obsolete) damage; hurt
   • 1614–1615, Homer, “The Thirteenth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume II, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

     What delight hath heaven,
     That lives unhurt it selfe, to suffer given
     Up to all domage those poore few that strive
     To imitate it and like the Deities live?

     The spelling has been modernized.

2. (obsolete) subjugation
   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC:

     extort a greater Value from his Contemners by Domage

References

“domage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• goamed

Middle English

Noun

domage

1. Alternative form of damage