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verb

Doom v. t. (past & past part. doomed; pres. part. dooming)

To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. (Obs.)

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."

To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine. "Have I tongue to doom my brother's death?"

To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. (New England)

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."

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"Doomed" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the Jesuit mission, had no sooner landed on the shores of New France than he became convinced that the mission and the colony itself were doomed unless there should be a radical change in the government. The Caens were thoroughly selfish. While discouraging settlement and agriculture, they so inadequately provided for the support of the colony that the inhabitants often lacked food. But the ...

— The Jesuit Missions: - A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness • Thomas Guthrie Marquis

... doomed at every meeting to hear her glorify a man whom he believed a heartless traitor, to plot with her for the rescue from imaginary captivity of the wretch who had cruelly forsaken her. He actually took some of the steps she urged; ...

— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells

... Such were the chief clauses of this astonishing compact. It dealt a deadly blow to Pitt. For at the very time when he was building up a formidable league and rousing Brittany against the Republic, Spain seceded from the monarchist cause, and by surrendering San Domingo to France, doomed to failure his costly efforts in Hayti. Further, as will appear in Chapter XI, by setting free large numbers of the French troops at the Pyrenees, she greatly enhanced the difficulties of the expedition of General Doyle to the coast of la Vendee. Worst of all, it soon appeared ...

— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose

... to merit scorn. Many of them know more of the outward world than all the philosophers of antiquity; and Christianity has opened to them mysteries of the spiritual world which kings and prophets were not privileged to understand. And are they, then, to be doomed to spiritual inaction, ...

— Harvard Classics Volume 28 - Essays English and American • Various

... entered the doomed quarter as they did. Kathlyn saw them, and the muzzle of the revolver which she was pressing to her heart lowered, the weapon itself slipping from her hand to the roof. God was not going to ...

— The Adventures of Kathlyn • Harold MacGrath

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