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See also:DOOM (Old Eng. dOm, a word See also:common to See also:Tent. See also:languages for that which is set up or ordered, from " do," in its See also:original meaning of " See also:place "; cf, Gr. &See also:Ass, from See also:stem of ri'See also:rust) , originally a See also:law or enactment, the legal decision of a See also:judge, and particularly an adverse See also:sentence on a criminal . The word is thus applicable to the adverse decrees of See also:fate, and particularly to the See also:day of See also:judgment . The verb " deem," to deliver a judgment, and hence to give or hold an See also:opinion, is a derivative, and appears also in various old See also:Teutonic forms . It is seen in " deemster," the name of the two See also:judges of the Isle of See also:Man . |
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