dominate 
< dominus, lord, master: see dominun. Hence 
in comp. pfwfmtfMta] I. trans. 1. To bear 
rule over; control by mastery ; govern; sway. 
We everywhere meet with Slavonian nations rithn 
dominant or dominated. Tookr, Hist. KuxHiit. 
Hence 2. To affect controllingly or most 
prominently ; have chief influence over or ef- 
fect upon ; overshadow : as, a domitiating fea- 
ture in a landscape. 
The spectral form of nn awful fate dominating all things 
human and divine. J. Caird. 
The credulity of the Christiana was dominated by con- 
science, anil they detected a polluted Impostor with as 
sure an instinct as the most cultivated Epicurean. 
Froude, Sketches, p. 13!>. 
H. intrants. To hold control; predominate; 
prevail. 
The system of Aristotle, however, still dominated in the 
universities. Ilallam, Introd. Lit of Europe, ill. 2. 
The Mount of Olives is a steep and rugged hill, amui- 
nating over the city ami the surrounding heights. 
B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 70. 
How explain the charm with which he [Shakspere] domi- 
nates in all tongues, even under the disenchantment of 
translation ? Lowell, Among my Books, 1st scr., p. 184. 
domination (dom-i-na'shon), n. [< ME. domy- 
nacion. < OF. dominatiun, domination, domina- 
tion, F. domination = Pr. domination = Sp. do- 
mination = Pg. dominacSo = It. dominazioiie, < 
L. i/iiiiinnitin(ii-), rule, dominion (also used in a 
concrete sense, in sing, or pi., rulers, lords, 
ML. a title of kings, etc., also in pi. one of the 
supposed orders of angels), < dominari, pp. do- 
mina tus, rule: see dominate.'] 1. The exercise 
of power in ruling; dominion; sovereignty; 
lordship ; government. 
This lyon crowned hadde in his companye xviij lyon- 
sewes crowned, whereof eche of hem nadde lordshippc 
and domynacion oner the tother bestes that were turned 
to the lyon crowned. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ill. 413. 
Thou, and thine, usurp 
The dominations, royalties, and rights 
Of this oppressed boy. Shak., K. John, It. 1. 
2. Control by means of superior ability, influ- 
ence, position, or resources ; prevailing force : 
as, the domination of strong minds over weak ; 
the domination of reason over the passions. 
That austere and insolent domination [of the aristoc- 
racy]. Burke, Present Discontents (1770). 
3. pi. An order of angels, supposed to be men- 
tioned in two passages of the New Testament 
(Eph. i. 21, Col. i. 16), where the authorized 
version uses the word dominions, in the scheme 
of the celestial hierarchy (see hierarchy) of Dionysius 
the pseudo-Areopagite (first cited in the sixth century), 
and afterward generally accepted, the dominations con- 
stitute the fourth among the nine orders of angels, rank- 
ing as the first order of the second or intermediate triad. 
The form domination rather than dominion is due to the 
Latin dominatio of the Vulgate, the rendering of the Greek 
*i>pumjs, dominion, lordship, power and rank of a lord, 
the word also used by Dionysius. 
Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers ; 
Hear my decree. Milton, P. L., v. 607. 
= 8yn. 1. Rule, command. 2. Influence, Ascendancy, etc. 
See authority. 
dominative (dom'i-na-tiv), a. [= F. domina- 
tif = Sp. Pg. dominaiivo, < ML. dominativus, < 
L. dominari, rule: see dominate.'] Presiding; 
governing ; dominating. [Obsolete or rare.] 
Nothing should be despisable In the eyes of other, the 
prince in majesty and sovereignty of power, the nobility 
in wisdom and dominative virtue. 
Sir E. Sandys, State of Religion. 
dominator (dom'i-na-tor), n. [Early mod. E. 
dominatour; = F. dominateur = Sp. Pg. doniitia- 
dor = It. dominatorc,< L. dominator, a ruler,< do- 
minari, rule : see dom inate.] A ruler; a ruling 
power; a presiding or predominant influence. 
The great pride of the Greekes and Latines, when they 
were dominatours of the world, reckoning no language so 
gweete and ciuill as their owne. 
Puttfnham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 209. 
Jupiter with Mars [are] dominators for this north-west 
part of the world. Camden, Remains, Britain. 
(Jrojit deputy, the welkin's vicegerent, and sole domi- 
nultir of Navarre. Shak., L. L. L., i. 1. 
domineer (dom-i-ner'), >. [In the 17th century 
also dominecrc, domminere; < MD. dominon'i, 
feast luxuriously (lit. play the master; cf. 
quot. from Shakspere under def. 2), D. domi- 
neren = G. dominircn = Dan. domincre = Sw. 
dominera, domineer, < OF. dominer, F. domi- 
ner, < L. doniinnri, rule, be master: see domi- 
nate.] I. intrans. 1. To rule in an overbear- 
ing or arrogant manner; have or get the upper 
hand. 
The bishop of Ely, chaucelor, 
Was left a vice-roy here, 
Who like a potent emperor 
Dii! proudly il'unminere. 
True Tale of Robin Uuml (Child's Ballads, V. 362). 
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1729 
A lustlce of peace hee is to dominrrrr in his Parish, and 
doe his neighbour wrong with more right. 
Do. Katie, Micro losnio^rnnliie, An Vp.start C'ountrcy 
[Knight. 
As when the feudal lords were strongest, the towns 
sought protection under their castles, so in Italy, when 
the towns and their factions domineered, the feudal lords 
were fain to seek their safety in becoming citizens. 
Brougham. 
2. To (rive orders or directions in an arrogant, 
blustering manner; make an overbearing as- 
sertion of authority; play the master: often 
with over. 
Go to the feast, revel and domineer. 
SAo*.,T. of the S., ill. 2. 
His Wishes tend abroad to roam ; 
And tier's, to domineer at home. 
Prior, Alma, II. 
Viragos, who discipline their husbands and dominf.er 
over the whole neighbourhood. 
Goldsmith, Female Warriors. 
= 8yn. 1. To tyrannize. 2. To swagger, lord tt 
n. trans. To govern; sway; influence. 
The barbara domineereth all the other syllogisms. 
Sir T. Browne. 
Think'st tin in. because my friend, with humble fervour, 
Kneels to Omnipotence, each gossip's dream, 
Each village-fable, domineers In turn 
His brain's distemper'd nerves? 
//. Walpole, Mysterious Mother, II. 2. 
domineering (dom-i-ner'ing), p. a. Overbear- 
ing. = &yn. Authoritative, Dogmatic, etc. See magisterial. 
domini, . Plural of dominus. 
dominical (do-min'i-kal), a. and n. [= OF. do- 
minical, F. dominical = Pr. Sp. Pg. dominical 
= It. domenicale, < ML. dominicalis, pertaining 
to Sunday (dominica, or, in full, dominica dies or 
dominicus dies, the Lord's day, Sunday, > It. do- 
menica = Sp. domingo = Pg. domingo, dominga 
= F. dimanche, Sunday) (neut. dominicale, a 
book containing the lessons or services for Sun- 
day, also a costume or veil for Sunday), or to 
the Lord, < L. dominicus (> Sp. dominico), per- 
taining to a lord, LL. and ML. pertaining to 
the Lord, < L. dominus, lord : see dominus.] I. 
a. 1. Of or pertaining to the Lord's day, or 
Sunday. 
And who knows not the superstitious rigor of his Sun- 
days Chappel, and the licentious remissness of his Sundays 
Theater ; accompanied with that reverend Statute for Do- 
minical Jigs and Maypoles, publisht in his own Name, and 
deriv'd from the example of his Father James. 
Milton, Eikonoklastes, i. 
2. Relating to Christ as Lord : as, the domini- 
cal prayer. 
Some words altered in the dominical gospels. Fuller. 
Dominical or Sunday letter, one of the seven letters 
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, used iu calendars to mark the Sundays 
throughout the year. The first seven days of the year be- 
ing marked by the above letters in their order, the follow- 
ing seven and all consecutive sets of seven days to the end 
of the year are similarly marked, except that in leap-years 
the 24th and 25th of February receive the same letter ; so 
that on whatever day the first Sunday of the year falls, the 
letter which marks it will mark all the other Sundays of 
the year, except in leap-year, when after February 24th the 
dominical letter for the remainder of the year changes 
to the one preceding. (Many modern writers make the 
change of letter to occur after the end of February, the 
29th taking no letter.) After twenty-eight years the same 
letters return In their order. The use of the dominical 
letter is primarily to aid in determining the date of East- 
er ; but it may be used, by calculation, for finding the day 
of the week on which a given date* falls In any year, past 
or future. To find the dominical letter of any year, let p, 
q, r, s, respectively, be the digits in the thousands', hun- 
dreds', tens', and units' places of the number of the year. 
Then, if the year is new style, find the sum 6 + Zq + 6r 
+ 4* + 1, and diminish it by the quotient of the year di- 
vided by 400 (neglecting the remainder). If it is old style, 
form the sum 3(p + 1) + a + 6r + 4*. In either case in- 
crease the result by double the remainder after dividing 
the year by 4 (this remainder being taken as 4 for January 
and February of a leap-year). Divide the result by 7, and 
the remainder is the ordinal number of the dominical let- 
ter in the alphabet(the ordinal number of G being called 0). 
II.t n. 1. The Lord's day; Sunday. 2. The 
Lord's house ; a building used for religious ser- 
vice. 
Then began Christian Churches, Oratories, or domiuicals 
to outshine the Temples of the Heathen Gods. 
Bp. Oauden, Tears of the Church, p. 361. 
3. A dominical letter. 
Kutli. Fair as a text B in a copy-book. 
Kos. 'Ware pencils ! How ? let me not die your debtor, 
My red dominical, my golden letter. Shak., L. L. I.. . v. -j. 
4. A garment or veil for Sundays. See domini- 
cale. 
Wee decree that euery woman, when she dooth commu- 
nicate, haue her dominical : if she haue it not, let her not 
communicate vntil the next Sonneday. ' 
Bp. Jeirell, Reply to Harding, p. 73. 
dominicale (do-min-i-ka'le), n. [ML. : see do- 
minical.] A general term for a costume orasin- 
gle garment appropriated to Sunday and atten- 
dance on divine service, especially a veil, of 
which the use is retained in Italy to the present 
dominion 
day, and was common among Roman Catholics 
elsewhere until a recent date. 
Dominican (do-min'i-kan), a. and n. [= F. do- 
iiiinii-iiiii = Sp. Pg. dominicano, dominico = It. 
domcnicano (chiefly as a noun) = D. Dominikaan 
= G. Dominicaner = Dan. Sw. I)iinii>iil;nner (as 
a noun), < ML. Dominicanug, pertaining to Do- 
minicus, a Dominican, < Dominicus, a man's 
name, referring to Dominic de Guzman, called 
St. Dominic. The name Dominicus, E. Domi- 
nic, F. Dominitfue, Sp. Domingo, It. Domenico, 
means ' belonging to the Lord' : see dominical.] 
1. a. 1 . Of or pertaining to St. Dominic or the 
Dominicans. 2. Noting certain South Ameri- 
can tanagcrs of the genus Faroaria, as P. - 
mi In in, of dark-gray color with a pointed scar- 
let crest. 
H. n. One of an order of mendicant friars 
instituted by the Spaniard Domingo de Guzman 
in Languedoo in France, and confirmed by the 
pope in 1216. The official name of the order is Fratres 
PraMlicatores (rendered In English Friars Preachers. 
Preaching Brethren or Friars, Predicants, or Order of 
Preachers), preaching and Instruction being the chief ob- 
jects of Its foundation. It was established by Dominic 
himself also in Italy and Spain, and spread rapidly In 
other countries. In England its members were called 
Black Friars, from their black cloaks, and In France Jaco- 
bins, from the church and hospital of St. Jacques (Jaco- 
bus), in which they were first established In Paris. Their 
rules, based upon those of St. Augustine, enjoin poverty, 
chastity, fasting, and silence ; but the last two may he dis- 
pensed with when they would interfere with active duties. 
The officers of the order are all elective. The highest, 
holding his place six years, is termed general ; provincial 
and conventual priors have charge respectively of prov- 
inces and convents. The Dominicans and Franciscans, 
originating about the same time and long vehement rivals, 
were the leading orders of the Roman Church until the rise 
of the Jesuits In the sixteenth century. They still exist in 
many countries, but with reduced Influence. The dress 
of the order is a black mantle and a white habit and scap- 
ular. An order of Dominican nuns was also founded by 
Dominic. 
dominicide 1 (do-min'i-sld), n. [< L. dominus, 
lord, master, + -cida, killer, < ccedere, kill.] 
One who kills his master. E. D. 
dominicide- (do-min'i-sid), n. [< L. dominus, 
lord, master, +'-cidium, a killing, < c<e<fere,kill.] 
The killing of a master. E. D. 
dominie (dom'i-ni or do'mi-ni), n. [= Sp. d<f- 
mine, a schoolmaster, < L. dominc, voc. of domi- 
nus, a lord or master ; the word being formerly 
used in the vocative as a regular term of ad- 
dress to clergymen, schoolmasters, and others 
in authority.] 1. A schoolmaster; a peda- 
gogue. [Scotch and Old Eng.] 
The dainty dominie, the schoolmaster. Beau, and Fl. 
Abel Sampson, commonly called, from his occupation 
as a pedagogue, Dominie Sampson. 
Scoff, Guy Mannerlng, II. 
2. In some parts of the United States, a clergy- 
man ; a parson ; especially, a settled minis- 
ter or pastor : a title used specifically in the 
(Dutch) Reformed Church, and colloquially in 
other churches, particularly in New York and 
New Jersey. 
dominio (do-me'ni-6), n. [Sp. : see dominion.] 
In Mexican and Spanish law, equivalent to domi- 
nium. 
dominion (do-min'yon), n. [< ME. dominion, 
domynyon, (. OF. dominion (F. dominion, as ap- 
plied to the Dominion of Canada), < ML. ao- 
minio(n-), equiv. to L. dominium (> Sp. Pg. It. 
dominio), lordship, right of ownership, < domi- 
nus, lord: see domain, demain, demesne, all from 
the same source.] 1. Lordship; sovereign or 
supreme authority; the power of governing 
and controlling ; empire : as, a territory under 
the dominion of a foreign power. 
Hit is also vnder the domynyon of the Venysians. 
Sir B. Guy(forde, Pylgrymage, p. 10. 
For till his dayes, the chiefe dominion 
By strength was wielded without pollicy. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. x. 39. 
I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose 
dominion is an everlasting dominion. Dan. iv. 34. 
2. The right of uncontrolled possession, use, 
and disposal ; power of control. 
Study thou the dominion of thyself, and quiet thine own 
commotions. Sir T. Broom, Christ. Mor., i. 24. 
He could not have private dominion over that which 
was under the private dominion of another. Locke. 
What am I 
That I dare to look her way ; 
Think I may hold dominion sweet, 
Lord of the pulse that is lord of her breast? 
Tennyson, Maud, xvl. 1. 
3. A territory and people subject to a specific 
government or control ; a domain : as, the do- 
minions of Prussia. 
Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion. 
Ps. cxlv. 2. 
