Doom

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt Ruin; death.

II. Doom ·vt To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.

III. Doom ·vt To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.

IV. Doom ·vt Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.

V. Doom ·vt To Judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.

VI. Doom ·vt Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.

VII. Doom ·vt That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, ·esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.

VIII. Doom ·vt To Destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.

IX. Doom ·vt 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.

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