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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: <1700, 1700-1714, 1818, 1950
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†DOOM, n. and v. Also doome. Sc. law.
1. n. A judicial sentence; formerly used in both civil and criminal cases, but now only in the formula of the death sentence.Sc. 1699 in Bnffsh. Jnl. (13 Sept. 1887) 2:
Ordaines your haill moveables to be escheat and inbrought and this for doome.Sc. 1714 D. Hume Commentaries (1797) II. 343:
This doom was afterwards mitigated into transportation.Sc. 1818 Scott H. Midlothian xxiv.:
"And this," said the Doomster, aggravating his harsh voice, "I pronounce for doom."Sc. 1950 Sc. Daily Mail (16 March) 3:
In respect of the verdict of guilty of murder . . . I decern and adjudge you to be . . . hanged by the neck upon a gibbet until you be dead, and your body thereafter to be buried within the walls of the city prison, and ordain your whole moveable goods and gear to be escheat and inbrought to His Majesty's use, which is pronounced for doom.
2. v. To pronounce sentence against, to condemn.Sc. 1702 D. Hume Commentaries (1797) II. 103:
On the 17th of the same month, Janet Syme is doomed in the same terms.
