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- English Word Dominical Definition Relating to, or given by, our Lord; as, the dominical (or Lord's) prayer.
- English Word Dominical Definition The Lord's day or Sunday; also, the Lord's prayer.
- English Word Dominican Definition Of or pertaining to St. Dominic (Dominic de Guzman), or to the religions communities named from him.
- English Word Dominican Definition One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins.
- English Word Dominicide Definition The act of killing a master.
- English Word Dominicide Definition One who kills his master.
- English Word Dominie Definition A schoolmaster; a pedagogue.
- English Word Dominie Definition A clergyman. See Domine, 1.
- English Word Dominion Definition Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.
- English Word Dominion Definition Superior prominence; predominance; ascendency.
- English Word Dominion Definition That which is governed; territory over which authority is exercised; the tract, district, or county, considered as subject; as, the dominions of a king. Also used figuratively; as, the dominion of the passions.
- English Word Dominion Definition A supposed high order of angels; dominations. See Domination, 3.
- English Word Domino Definition A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.
- English Word Domino Definition A mourning veil formerly worn by women.
- English Word Domino Definition A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.
- English Word Domino Definition A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.
- English Word Domino Definition A person wearing a domino.
- English Word Domino Definition A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played
- English Word Domino Definition One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.
- English Word Dominoes Definition of Domino
- English Word Dominos Definition of Domino
- English Word Dominus Definition Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor.
- English Word Domitable Definition That can be tamed.
- English Word Domite Definition A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de-Dome in Auvergne, France, where it is found.
- English Word Don Definition Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes.
- English Word Don Definition A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities.
- English Word Don Definition To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with.
- English Word Donable Definition Capable of being donated or given.
- English Word Donary Definition A thing given to a sacred use.
- English Word Donat Definition A grammar.