dom

Senses

1. judgment

   Ne sċeall nān godes þeġn for sċeattum riht dēman, ac healdan þone dōm ġif godes man sȳ...

   Nor shall one of God's servants decide a law for wealth, but maintain the judgement if he is a man of God...

   late 10th century, Ælfric, Lives of Saints

2. sentence

3. law, statute

   Þis syndon þā dōmas ðe Hloþhære ⁊ Ēadrīc, Cantwara cyningas, asetton. Hloþhære ⁊ Ēadrīc, Cantwara cyningas, ēcton þā ǣ, þā ðe heora aldoras ǣr ġeworhten, ðyssum dōmum þe hȳr efter sæġeþ.

   These are the laws that Hlothhere and Eadric, kings of Kent, laid down. Hlothhere and Eadric, kings of Kent, added these laws listed hereafter to the laws their ancestors created.

   Laws of Hlothhere and Eadric

4. jurisdiction

5. discernment, discretion

6. sway, majesty, power, might

   Ac iċ mīþan sċeal monna ġehwylċum dēgolfulne dōm dȳran cræftes, sīðfæt mīnne. Saga hwæt iċ hātte.

   But I should hide from any of men a secret might of worthy craft, a road of mine. Say what I am.

   c. 980, Exeter Book Riddle 83:

7. fame, repute

   Dagas sind ġewitene, ealle onmedlan eorþan rīċes; nǣron nū cyningas ne cāseras ne goldġiefan swylċe iū wǣron, þonne hī mǣst mid him mǣrþa ġefremedon ond on dryhtlīċestum dōme lifdon.

   The days are gone, whole sheens of Earth’s kingdom; kings were not now, nor emperors, nor gold-givers as once were when they fulfilled most of honors amongst 'emselves and lived in the lordliest glory.

   10th century, The Seafarer:

Declension · strong a-stem

Senses

1. first-person singular present indicative of doan

2. Inflected form of doan