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dominican
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dominican \Do*min"i*can\, prop. n. (Eccl. Hist.) 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.
Dominican \Do*min"i*can\, prop. a. [NL. Dominicanus, fr. Dominicus, Dominic, the founder: cf. F. Dominicain.] Of or pertaining to St. Dominic (Dominic de Guzman), or to the religious communities named from him.
Dominican nuns, an order of nuns founded by St. Dominic, and chiefly employed in teaching.
Dominican tertiaries the third order of St. Dominic. See Tertiary.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Black friar," 1630s, from Latin form of the name of Domingo de Guzman (Santo Domingo), founder of the order of preaching friars. His name, like Italian form Dominic, is from Latin dominicus "pertaining to a lord."
"native or inhabitant of the Dominican Republic," 1853, from the Caribbean island of Dominica, home of the nation, so named 1493, from Latin (dies) dominica "Sunday," the day of the week on which the island was discovered.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Dominican may refer to:
- Someone or something from or related to the Dominican Republic, on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles, in the Caribbean
- People of the Dominican Republic
- Demographics of the Dominican Republic
- Culture of the Dominican Republic
- Someone or something from or related to the Commonwealth of Dominica, an island nation in the Lesser Antilles, in the Caribbean
- People of Dominica
- Demographics of Dominica
- Culture of Dominica
- Dominican Order, a Catholic religious order
Usage examples of "dominican".
The Dominicans of San Domenico and the Bolognese government officials were set on what they wanted: St.
The next morning Bruno reached the Dominican monastery at Chambery, in France: he was Brother Teofilo, witch-hunter of Naples.
Dominican and Capuchin convents of that city, until proper houses could be prepared for their reception at Tivoli and Frescati.
The original is now, after it is too late, carefully guarded and protected in its old place in the Dominican convent of the Madonna della Grazia, Milan.
Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nicaragua set the stage for the dictators Batista, Trujillo, the Duvaliers, and the Somozas, whose legacies still reverberate.
United States effectively made colonies of Nicaragua, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and several other countries.
All the great Orders arose from dissatisfaction with the priests: that of the Franciscans with priestly snobbery, that of the Dominicans with priestly laziness and Laodiceanism, that of the Jesuits with priestly apathy and ignorance and indiscipline.
There are Franciscans, Marists, Benedictines, Trappists, Jesuits, Dominicans, and several others.
Dominicans, the Jesuits, the Benedictines, the Legionaries of Christ, the Mariaists, the Salesians, and a single delegate standing for the few remaining Franciscans.
He also deputized a fellow Dominican with expertise in mathematics to scrutinize the text and report back to him.
The Dominican hitters were notorious hackers because they had been told they had to be to survive.
Alexander, seeing that he would get nothing better from the magnificent republic, sent as deputies Gioacchino Turriano of Venice, General of the Dominicans, and Francesco Ramolini, doctor in law: they practically brought the sentence with them, declaring Savonarola and his accomplices heretics, schismatics, persecutors of the Church and seducers of the people.
A century after More, the Italian Dominican friar Tommaso Campanella wrote The City of the Sun, which to a great extent is an antithesis to Plato, but with Big Brother still present.
He was a Dominican, and made it a rule that his penitents should approach the holy table every Sunday and feast day.
A few days after the Dominican was removed, and his penitents divided amongst the three remaining confessors.