doltIshness

[English doltish; -ne .] The actions, behavior, or character of a dolt; stupidity, thickheadedne . "I am in great hopes that the ministers will contrive, by their incomparable doltishne , their manifold blunders, and bad faith, to disgust the people." -Southey: Let. ters , iv. 237. *dolv-en, pa . par . or a. [DELVE.] *dol-y, *dol-ye, a. [Probably from dull (q. v.).] Gloomy, 'dismal, cheerle . "This dolye chaunce gald us." Stanyhurst: Virgil's Æneid ii. 431. đăm (1), s . [Lat. dominus = a master, a lord.] 1. A title given to ecclesiastical and monastic dignitaries. Benedictine and Car thus i an monks are called Dom, whether they be priests or simply in minor orders. The title is a umed after profe ion. 2. The title given in Portugal and Brazil to a member of the upper cla es. dăm (2), s . [DOOM.] A termination used originally to denote jurisdiction, property, ., as a king dom , the jurisdiction or territory of a king; earldom, that of an earl, .; afterward, and now, used to expre simple condition, state, or quality. "Kingdom, dukedom, earldom, meant originally the domain or property of the king, duke, or earl; and in a secondary sense dom was afterward applied to expre quality, state, condition, or property o of another kind, as freedom." -Whiter: Etym. Magn ., p. 210. dom-a-ble, a. [Lat. domabilis, from domo to tame; Sp. domable; Ital. domabile.] That may or can be tamed; tamable.