DOMICILIARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does domiciliary mean? 

• DOMICILIARY (adjective)
  The adjective DOMICILIARY has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or provided in a domicile

  Familiarity information: DOMICILIARY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOMICILIARY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or provided in a domicile

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

domiciliary caves

Pertainym:

domicile (housing that someone is living in)

Derivation:

domicile (housing that someone is living in)

domicile ((law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time)

 Context examples 

“It is humble,” said Mr. Micawber, “—to quote a favourite expression of my friend Heep; but it may prove the stepping-stone to more ambitious domiciliary accommodation.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We must bear in mind that Oberstein has gone to the Continent to dispose of his booty, but not with any idea of flight; for he had no reason to fear a warrant, and the idea of an amateur domiciliary visit would certainly never occur to him.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)