DOM 
work which he publiflied in this country, was intended 
to flrike a fatal blow at the foundations of the papal 
power and dominion, intitled, M. Ant. de Dominis de Re- 
publica Ecclejiajlka, Libri X. in 3 vols. folio, which made 
their appearance in the years 1617 and 1620. It is a 
work of great erudition and ingenuity, and was received 
with much applaufe by the proteftant world, while, as 
might be expected, it was ftrongly condemned by the 
catholics. M. de Dominis is alfo faid to have been 
E rincipally concerned in the publication of father Paul’s 
iftory of the Council of Trent, which appeared at Lon¬ 
don in 1619. In reward of his learning, and as fome 
compenfation for the facrifices which he had made, he 
was preferred by king James to the mafterlhip of the 
Savoy, and the deanery of Windfor. But he is reported 
to have been difappointed in the expectations' which he 
had formed of higher preferments among the proteftants. 
During this fit of chagrin, it is faid that count Gonde- 
mar, the Spanifh ambalfador, invited him in the name of 
pope Gregory XV. who had been formerly his friend 
and fellow ftudent, to return to Rome, and abjure his 
herefy, under folemn promifes of a cardinal’s hat. The 
fnarc was fo artfully laid that he eafily fell into it; and, 
after renouncing the proteftant religion, he departed for 
Rome in 1622. In that city he l'olemnly abjured his 
heretical errors, and afked pardon in a public confiftory 
for the apoftacy of which he had been guilty. He alfo 
publiflied an acknowledgment to the world at large of 
the criminality of his conduct in abandoning the catholic 
communion, and explained the motives which had again 
recalled him to it, in a treatife intitled, Marais Antoninus 
de Dominis Archiepifcopus Spalatenjis fui reditus ex Anglia con¬ 
cilium exponit. But, though he was at firfl well received 
at Rome, he faw no profpeX of the advancement which 
he had been promifed in the church. Thefe circum- 
liances are faid to have operated fo powerfully upon his 
unfteady mind, that he was led to make ufe of expref- 
fions which excited a fufpicion of the fincerity of his 
convcrfion ; and letters are ftated to have been inter¬ 
cepted, written by him to fome of his connexions in 
England, in which he declared his repentance for the 
hep he had recently taken. It was determined, how¬ 
ever, that he fliould not be indulged with another op¬ 
portunity of joining the proteftants ; he was accordingly, 
by order of pope Urban VIII. committed prifoner to the 
caftle of St. Angelo, where he is fuppofed to have died 
of poifon, in 1625, in the fixty-fourth year of his age. 
Some time after his death his body was taken out of his 
grave and burnt, together with his writings, by a decre^f 
of the inquifition. Befides the works already noticed, he 
was the author of De Radiis Vifus & Lucis in Vitris perfpcc- 
tivis & hide TraElatus. Sir Ifaac Newton, in his Optics, 
has complimented him as being the firfl perfon who ex¬ 
plained the phenomenon of the colours of the rainbow 
upon juft principles. 
DO'MINO, f. A fort of hood worn bv the canons of 
a cathedral church ; alfo the habit of a Venetian noble- 
mjfB, very much in ufe as a drefs for mafquerades. 
"tfO'MINUS,/. in ancient times, when prefixed to a 
man’s name, ufually denqted him a knight, or a clergy¬ 
man ; and fometimes a gentleman, not a knight, efpe- 
cially a lord of a manor. 
DOMITEL'LUS, f. A title anciently given to the 
French king’s natural fons. See Domitellus. 
DOMI'TI A LEX de RELIGIONE,yi was enaXedby 
Domitius Ahenobarbus, the tribune, in the year of Rome 
650. It transferred the right of eleXing priefts from the 
college to the people. 
DOMI'TI AN (Titus Flavius Domitianus), a Roman 
emperor, fecond Ion of Vefpafian, and the laft of the 
twelve Caefars: for his life and charaXer, fee Rome. 
DO'MITROVSK, a town of Ruflia, in the govern¬ 
ment of Orel: forty miles fouth-weft of Orel, and 484 
fouth-fouth-eaft of Peterfburg. 
Vql. VI. No. 323. 
DON 17 
DO'MITURE,/". [from the Lat. domo, to tame.] The 
aX of taming. Scott. 
DO'MITZ, a town and fortrefs of Germany, in the 
circle of Lower Saxony, and duchy of Mecklenburg, at 
the conflux of the Elbe and the Elda : fold by the elec¬ 
tor of Brandenburg to the count of Schwerin in 132S, 
with the duties, and all the country on both fides the 
Elbe, for 7500 marks: the town and duties returned 
again to the houfe of Brandenburg, but the fortrefs re¬ 
mains with the dukes of Mecklenburg^ as heirs of the 
counts of Schwerin. It was taken by the Imperial troops 
in 1627 ; by the Swedes in 1631 ; by the Saxons and Im- 
perialifts in 1637; and again by the Swedes in 1643: 
thirty-four miles fouth of Schwerin. Lat. 53. xo. N. Ion. 
29. 5. E. Ferro. 
DOMMA'IGNE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Ille and Vilaine, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftriX of Vitre : feven miles weft-fouth-weft 
of Vitre. 
DOMMALAIN', a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Ille and Vilaine, and chief place of a can¬ 
ton, in the diftriX of La Guerche : one league north of 
La Guerche. 
DOM'MART les PONTHIEU, a town of France, 
in the department of the Somme, and chief place of a 
canton, in the diftriX of Doulens : four leagues north- 
weft of Amiens. 
DOM'ME, a town of France, in the department of the 
Dordogne, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriX of 
Sarlat: two leagues fouth of Sarlat. 
DOM'MEL, a river of Brabant, which pafles by Bois- 
le-Duc, where it receives the Aa, and, joining the Meufe, 
forms, with that river and the Wahal, the ifland of 
Bommel. 
DOM'MITSCH, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony, and margraviate of Meiflen : thirty- 
eight miles north-weft of Meiifen. 
DOM'NAU, a town of Pruflia, in the province of Na- 
tangen : nineteen miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Koniglberg. 
DO'MO REPARANDA, f. A writrthat lay for one 
againft his neighbour, by the fall of whofe houfe he feared 
a damage and injury to his own. Reg. Orig. 153. 
DOM'PAIRE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Vofges, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriX 
of Mirecourt, formerly the refidence of the kings of Auf- 
trafia, and dukes of Lorrain : three leagues weft-north- 
weft of Epinal. 
DOMPIER'RE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Allier, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriX 
of Donjon : fourteen miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Moulins. 
DOMPIER'RE, a towrn of France in the department 
of the Lower Charente, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftriX of Saintes : two leagues eaft-fouth-eaft of 
Saintes. 
DOM'REMY, a town of France, in the department 
of the Meufe, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriX 
of Commerce. The birth-place of the celebrated maid 
of Orleans, Jeanne d’Arc : three leagues and a half eaft 
of Bar-le-Duc. 
DOMRIAN'KA, a town of Ruflia, in the government 
of Perm : forty miles north of Perm. 
DO'MUS CQNVERSORUM, f. An ancient houfe, 
built by order of Henry III. for fuch Jews as were con¬ 
verted to the Chriftian faith : but Edward III. who ex¬ 
pelled the Jews from this kingdom, afterwards deputed 
the place for the cuftody of the rolls and records of the 
chancery. See Rolls. 
DO'MUS DEI, f. [houfe of God.] The hofpital of 
St. Julian in Southampton, fo called. Mon. Angl. tom. ii. 
440. It is a name applied to many ancient hofpitals and 
religious houfes. 
DON, or Dom, f . [ dominus , Lat.] The Spanifh title 
for a gentleman ; as, Don QuLxote. It is with us ufed 
ludicrouily; 
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