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DOOM, originally a law or enactment, the legal decision of a judge, and particularly an adverse sentence on a criminal (O.E. dorn, a word common to Teut. languages for that which is set up or ordered). The word is thus applicable to the adverse de crees of Fate, and particularly to the day of judgment. The verb "deem," to deliver a judgment, is seen in "deemster," the name of the two judges of the Isle of Man (q.v.).