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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Domesticate \Do*mes"ti*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Domesticated}; p. pr & vb n. {Domesticating.}] [LL.
domesticatus p. p. of domesticare to reside in to tame. See
{Domestic}, a.]
1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as to
domesticate one's self
2. To cause to be as it were of one's family or country;
as to domesticate a foreign custom or word
3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as to domesticate
wild animals; to domesticate a plant.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
domesticated
adj 1: converted or adapted to domestic use "domestic animals";
"domesticated plants like maize" [syn: {domestic}]
2: accustomed to home life; "some men think it unmanly to be
domesticated; others find gratification in it"
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