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Dominican   /dəmˈɪnəkən/   Listen
Dominican

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or characteristic of the Dominican Republic or its people.
2.
Of or relating to Saint Dominic or the Dominican order.
noun
1.
A Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order.  Synonyms: Black Friar, Blackfriar, friar preacher.
2.
A native or inhabitant of the Dominican Republic.



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... Holy Trinity, the home of an alien Benedictine order. A Carmelite Friary in Hungate, opposite the Castle, seems, from the few odd fragments of stone that remain, to have had fine buildings. The Augustinian Friary was between Lendal and the river. The Dominican house, which was burnt down in 1455, was on the site of ...
— Life in a Medival City - Illustrated by York in the XVth Century • Edwin Benson
... are condemned to sin and do bad actions as a punishment! (Pause.) Not long ago I lay sick of a fever, and amidst all that happened to me, I dreamed that I saw a crucifix without the Crucified. And when I asked the Dominican—for there was a Dominican among many others—what it could mean, he said: 'You will not allow Him to suffer for you. Suffer then yourself!' That's why mankind have grown so ...
— The Road to Damascus - A Trilogy • August Strindberg
... passing just before. The look and dress of the man made me shudder. His great red feet were bound up in a shoe open at the toes, a kind of compromise for a sandal. I had just seen him and his brethren at the Dominican Church, where a mass of music was sung, and orange-trees, flags, and banners decked the ...
— Little Travels and Roadside Sketches • William Makepeace Thackeray
... zeal of Dominican and Franciscan friars, a few of these hieroglyphic MSS. escaped the flames, and may now be seen in some of our public libraries, as curious relics of a nearly extinct and forgotten literature. The first collection of ...
— Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I - Essays on the Science of Religion • Friedrich Max Mueller
... The English Dominican Friar, Th. Stubbs, writing in the thirteenth century, describes in his notice of St. Oswald a chasuble of Anglo-Saxon work, which exactly resembles that of Aix.[567] This is splendidly engraved in Von Bock's "Kleinodien" amongst ...
— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford


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