DOOM

Definitions

1. 1. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. [Obs.] Milton.
2. 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. 3. To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine. Have I tongue to doom my brother's death Shak.
4. 4. To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. [New England] J. Pickering.
5. 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.