3. Ruin; death.

This is the day of doom for Bassianus.

Shak.

4. Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision. [Obs.]

And there he learned of things and haps to come,

To give foreknowledge true, and certain doom.

Fairfax.

Syn. -- Sentence; condemnation; decree; fate; destiny; lot; ruin; destruction.

Doom, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doomed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dooming.] 1. To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. [Obs.] Milton.

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.

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