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Dominical adj.

Indicating, or pertaining to, the Lord's day, or Sunday.

Relating to, or given by, our Lord; as, the dominical (or Lord's) prayer. "Some words altered in the dominical Gospels."

Dominical altar (Eccl.), the high altar.

Dominical letter, the letter which, in almanacs, denotes Sunday, or the Lord's day (dies Domini). The first seven letters of the alphabet are used for this purpose, the same letter standing for Sunday during a whole year (except in leap year, when the letter is changed at the end of February). After twenty-eight years the same letters return in the same order. The dominical letters go backwards one day every common year, and two every leap year; e. g., if the dominical letter of a common year be G, F will be the dominical letter for the next year. Called also Sunday letter. Cf. Solar cycle, under Cycle, n.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dominical" Quotes from Famous Books

... let me not die your debtor, My red dominical, my golden letter: O, that your face were not ...

— Love's Labour's Lost • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]

... establishments. The excitement of the times reached even to the sawpit. Brandon got tipsy one Saturday night with a parcel of demagogues, and when he awoke early next Sunday morning—it was a beautiful summer day—he made the sudden discovery that he had still his faith to seek for. Then began his dominical pilgrimages: with his son Ralph in his hand, he roved from one congregation to another over the vast metropolis, and through its extensive environs: I do not think that we left a single place dedicated to devotion unvisited. I ...

— Rattlin the Reefer • Edward Howard

Words linked to "Dominical" : Sunday, Jesus