The first dooms of London provide especially the
recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens. --J.
R. Green.
Now against himself he sounds this doom. --Shak.
2. That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate,
esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.
Ere Hector meets his doom. --Pope.
And homely household task shall be her doom.
--Dryden.
This is the day of doom for Bassianus. --Shak.
4. Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination;
discernment; decision. [Obs.]
And there he learned of things and haps to come, To
give foreknowledge true, and certain doom.
--Fairfax.
Syn: Sentence; condemnation; decree; fate; destiny; lot;
ruin; destruction.
2. 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.
--Dryden.
3. To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
Have I tongue to doom my brother's death? --Shak.
4. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. [New
England] --J. Pickering.
5. 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. --Macaulay.