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Definition of Dominican

1. Noun. A Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of the Dominican Republic or its people. "The Dominican population"

3. Noun. A native or inhabitant of the Dominican Republic.

4. Adjective. Of or relating to Saint Dominic or the Dominican order. "Dominican monks"

Definition of Dominican

1. a. Of or pertaining to St. Dominic (Dominic de Guzman), or to the religious communities named from him.

2. n. 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.

Definition of Dominican

1. Noun. A person from the Commonwealth of Dominica or of its descent. ¹

2. Noun. A person from the Dominican Republic or of its descent. ¹

3. Noun. A member of the religious order founded by St. Dominic. ¹

4. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to Dominica, or its people. ¹

5. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to the Dominican Republic, or its people. ¹

6. Adjective. Of or belonging to the Dominican religious order. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dominican

Dolomite Dolomite Alps Dolomites Dolores Dom Pedro Dom Pérignon Domaaki Domain Name System Dombrock blood group Domenikos Theotocopoulos

Domesday Book Domingo Domingo de Guzman Dominic Dominica Dominican Dominican Republic Dominican dollar Dominican mahogany Dominican monetary unit

Dominican order Dominican peso Dominicanism Dominicans Dominick Dominicus Dominion Dominion Day Dominique Domitian

Literary usage of Dominican

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1907)
"THE CONVENTION OF 1907 BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE dominican REPUBLIC On February 15,1905, the president of the United States transmitted to the ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"He entered the dominican Order in 1279. From 1294 to 1305 he served as prior in convents at Albi, Carcassonne, Castres, and Limoges; in 1314 he was vicar of ..."

3. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1869)
"... from time to time, lawfully imported into the United States in their own vessels, may also be imported in the vessels of the dominican republic, ..."

4. The Tribune Almanac and Political Register by Horace Greeley (1908)
"The dominican government will provide by law for the payment of all customs ... Until the dominican Republic has paid the whole amount of the bonds of the ..."

5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1872)
"Tuis claim has been already for a considerable time before the dominican Government, which refuses to consider more of it than the amount named in the ..."

6. Mexico and the Caribbean by George Hubbard Blakeslee (1920)
"The two republics on that island, the dominican Republic of Santo Domingo, ... SANTO DOMINGO Occupation by the United States Between the dominican Republic ..."

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