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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tame  \Tame\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Tamed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Taming}.]  [AS.  tamian,  temian,  akin  to  D.  tammen  temmen,  G. 
  z["a]hmen,  OHG.  zemmen  Icel.  temja,  Goth.  gatamjan  See 
  {Tame},  a.] 
  1.  To  reduce  from  a  wild  to  a  domestic  state;  to  make  gentle 
  and  familiar;  to  reclaim;  to  domesticate;  as  to  tame  a 
  wild  beast. 
 
  They  had  not  been  tamed  into  submission,  but  baited 
  into  savegeness  and  stubbornness.  --Macaulay. 
 
  2.  To  subdue;  to  conquer;  to  repress;  as  to  tame  the  pride 
  or  passions  of  youth. 




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