DOMESTICATION

domestication

(noun) accommodation to domestic life; “her explorer husband resisted all her attempts at domestication”

tameness, domestication

(noun) the attribute of having been domesticated

domestication

(noun) adaptation to intimate association with human beings

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

domestication (countable and uncountable, plural domestications)

The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants.

The act of domesticating, or making a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.

(translation studies) The act of domesticating a text.

Anagrams

• ectinosomatid

Source: Wiktionary


Do*mes`ti*ca"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. domestication.]

Definition: The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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