| domestic violence | Deliberate, often repetitive, physical abuse by one family member against another: marital partners, parents, children, siblings, or any other member of a household. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| violence | 1. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force. "That seal You ask with such a violence, the king, Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me." (Shak) "All the elements at least had gone to wrack, disturbed and torn With the violence of this conflict." (Milton) 2. Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault. "Do violence to do man." (Luke III. 14) "We can not, without offering violence to all records, divine and human, deny an universal deluge." (T. Burnet) "Looking down, he saw The whole earth filled with violence." (Milton) 3. Ravishment; rape; constupration. To do violence on, to attack; to murder. "She . . . Did violence on herself." . To do violence to, to outrage; to injure; as, he does violence to his own opinions. Synonym: Vehemence, outrage, fierceness, eagerness, violation, infraction, infringement, transgression, oppression. Origin: F, fr. L. Violentia. See Violent. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| animals, domestic | Animals which have become adapted through breeding in captivity to a life intimately associated with man. They include animals domesticated by man to live and breed in a tame condition on farms or ranches (e.g., horses, cattle, sheep) and those raised or kept for pleasure and companionship (e.g., dogs, cats, horses). (12 Dec 1998) |
| domestic | 1. Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. "His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong." (Macaulay) 4. Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions. 3. Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman. 4. Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals. 5. Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc. Origin: L. Domesticus, fr. Domus use: cf. F. Domestique. See 1st Dome. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| domestic soap | Soap made with sodium hydroxide and a purified animal fat consisting chiefly of stearin; used in pharmacy in the preparation of certain liniments. Synonym: curd soap, domestic soap, tallow soap. (05 Mar 2000) |