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Especially a settled minister or parson
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dominie
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Dominie (Wiktionary definition) is a Scots language and Scottish English term for a Scottish schoolmaster usually of the Church of Scotland and also a term used in the US for a minister or pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church .
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n. a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson [syn: dominus , domine , dominee ]
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Dominie \Dom"i*nie\, n. [L. dominus master. See Don , Dame .] A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Scot.] This was Abel Sampson, commonly called, from occupation as a pedagogue, Dominie Sampson. --Sir W. Scott. A clergyman. See Domine , 1. [Scot. & Colloq. U. ...
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n. 1 (context now chiefly Scotland English) A schoolmaster, teacher. 2 (context US English) A pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church.
Usage examples of dominie.
That is the duty I will discharge to you, dominie, nothing more and nothing less.
We are a simple people, and yet, dominie, we have survived longer than any other bloodline.
Palace, dominie, and so we have always believed that they are no longer of the world.
If you have business to attend to, dominie, then that is what you must do.
A black-robed, white-wigged dominie emerged to stand at the head of the steps, confirming her guess.
Catching the squirming cat just as it would have leaped for freedom, Caroline swung around to discover the dominie not a dozen paces away, stopped in his tracks by her hasty words.
Why did both the blasted dominie and her proposed new family have to be present to witness her newly reawakened delinquency?
Every colonial she had met so far, from the pickle-faced dominie to the youngest Mathieson boy, had been as rude as he could be.
His eyes were open and focused on the dominie, dislike turning them a darker shade of blue than she had yet seen them.
Matt had quite a battle with the dominie over it, which is the reason for the bad feeling between them that persists to this day.
As far as the rest of the congregation were concerned, some of the ladies, swayed, no doubt, by the continued disapprobation of the dominie and the apothecary, who were both very important men in the town, kept their distance.
She ignored them and ignored too the dominie and his deacons, who were very much in evidence as they moved about, trying by their sobering presence to bring order to the sweating multitudes.
In fine, Hanz and the Dominie were called in to settle nearly all the disputes arising between the country folks for miles around.
Even the Dominie was sent for, and made to drink flip and tell a story, which he did with infinite good humor.
But, in truth, the pedagogue had a weakness he could not overcome, and when invited to take flip tossed off so many mugs as completely to loose his wits, though his tongue ran so nimbly that he was more than a match for the Dominie, who declined discussing a question of religion with him, but offered to tell a story for every song he would sing.