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Dooming

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Doom \Doom\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Doomed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Dooming}.]
   1. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. [Obs.]
      --Milton.

   2. To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to
      consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a
      criminal doomed to chains or death.

            Absolves the just, and dooms the guilty souls.
                                                  --Dryden.

   3. To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.

            Have I tongue to doom my brother's death? --Shak.

   4. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. [New
      England] --J. Pickering.

   5. To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to
      appoint, as by decree or by fate.

            A man of genius . . . doomed to struggle with
            difficulties.                         --Macaulay.
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