jan 1, 1827 - An 1827 edition of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language gives definition of the term ‘domestic’

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An 1827 edition of Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language gives the following definition of the term ‘domestic’:

Belonging to the house; not relating to things publick.
Private; done at home; not open.
Inhabiting the house; not wild.
Not foreign; intestine.

Samuel Johnson, Dictionary of the English Language, revised edn., 3 vols., London 1827, vol.1, unpaginated.

https://www.tate.org.uk/research/tate-papers/22/george-elgar-hicks-womans-mission-and-the-apotheosis-of-the-domestic

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