Dictionary Definition
domiciliate
Verb
1 make one's home or live in; "She resides
officially in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These
people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The
plains are sparsely populated" [syn: dwell, shack, reside, live, inhabit, people, populate, domicile]
2 provide housing for; "The immigrants were
housed in a new development outside the town" [syn: house, put up]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
- To establish a permanent residence.
- To establish a permanent residence for (someone).
- transitive figurative To settle (oneself) into a mode of thinking or the like.
Usage notes
- The figurative sense is most often used with himself or a similar pronoun as its object.