See Also: doom(1)(dictionary)
doom(2)(dictionary)
DOOM(law)
doom palm(medicine)
doom 1, verb(dictionary)
doom 2, noun(dictionary)
doom-laden(dictionary)
Volcano of Doom(recipes)

doom(1) (iou)



doom noun1. [du:m]
[Old English dom = Old Frisian, Old Saxon dom, Old High German tuom, Old Norse domr, Gothic doms, from Germanic, from a base meaning 'to place', 'to set', repr. also by DO verb. For the sense-development cf. Greek themis law (the- to place), Latin statutum STATUTE noun.]
A statute, a law; gen. an ordinance, a decree. obsolete exc. Hist. OE.
J. Lingard He revised the whole code of Anglo-Saxon law, and compiled a new book of dooms.
A judicial decision, esp. one formally pronounced; spec. a sentence of punishment. OE.
S. Beckett To record the doom, don the black cap.
The process of judging, as in a court of law; a trial. arch. OE.
C. Kingsley The Judge is set, the doom begun!
Justice, equity. Chiefly in versions of Scripture or in scriptural allusions. OE-L16.
Right to judge; gen. power, authority. OE-LME.
The Last Judgement; a pictorial representation of this. Now chiefly in crack of doom. arch. ME.
Day of Doom (a) the Day of Judgement; (b) transf. the last day of one's life.
Milton The wakefull trump of doom. J. T. Micklethwaite The..hobgoblins of mediaeval dooms.
Personal opinion or judgement. ME-E17.
Faculty of judging; discernment. LME-L17.
Dryden With..unerring Doom, He sees what is, and was, and is to come.
Irrevocable lot, fate, destiny, (esp. evil). LME.
D. H. Lawrence She knew her life would be unhappy...Yet it was her doom She had to come back to him. T. H. White It will be your glorious doom..to enjoy the nobility of your proper title.
The fated ending to a person's life, career, or course of action; impending ruin or disaster. L16.
J. R. Green The minister's doom was sealed. V. Glendinning The atmosphere of impending doom..lay heavily on them all.
Comb.: doombook Hist. a code of Germanic or Anglo-Saxon laws, spec. that ascribed to Alfred the Great; doom-laden adjective portending, suggesting, or predicting doom; doom-ring Archaeology a ring of stones forming the boundary of the old Norse courts of judgement; doomsayer = DOOMSTER 3; doom-tree Hist.: on which condemned persons were hanged; doomwatch a watch for signs of impending disaster, esp. of environmental destruction; doomwatcher a person who takes part in a doomwatch or who predicts environmental disaster.
doomful adjective (arch.) fraught with impending disaster; fateful: L16.
doomfully adverb M20.