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Meaning of HALIDOM

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Hal"i*dom\, n. [AS. h[=a]ligd?m holiness, sacrament,
sanctuary, relics; h[=a]lig holy + -d?m, E. -dom. See
{Holy}.]
1. Holiness; sanctity; sacred oath; sacred things; sanctuary;
   -- used chiefly in oaths. [Archaic]
         So God me help and halidom.           --Piers
                                               Plowman.
         By my halidom, I was fast asleep.     --Shak.
2. Holy doom; the Last Day. [R.] --Shipley.
 
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