Dam"age (dăm"&asl;j; 48), n.
[OF. damage, domage, F. dommage, fr. assumed LL.
damnaticum, from L. damnum damage. See Damn.]
1. Injury or harm to person, property, or
reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt;
mischief.
He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool
cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage.
Prov. xxvi. 6.
Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a
friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their
fame and fortune.
Bacon.
2. pl. (Law) The estimated
reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a
compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong
or injury actually done to him by another.
&fist; In common-law actions, the jury are the proper judges of
damages.
Consequential damage. See under
Consequential. -- Exemplary damages
(Law), damages imposed by way of example to others. -
- Nominal damages (Law), those given for
a violation of a right where no actual loss has accrued. --
Vindictive damages, those given specially for
the punishment of the wrongdoer.
Syn. -- Mischief; injury; harm; hurt; detriment; evil; ill.
See Mischief.
Dam"age, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Damaged (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Damaging (?).] [Cf. OF. damagier, domagier. See
Damage, n.] To occasion damage to the
soundness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to
impair.
He . . . came up to the English admiral and gave him a
broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged
the ship.
Clarendon.
Dam"age (dăm"&asl;j), v. i.
To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in
soundness or value; as, some colors in cloth damage in
sunlight.
