Dominical

Quick meaning: Dominical is an adjective meaning Of or pertaining to Jesus Christ as Lord.

Meaning

Of or pertaining to Jesus Christ as Lord.

More Meanings

1. A person who keeps Sunday as a day of rest, but does not regard it as representing the Sabbath of the Old Testament of the Bible.
2. The Lord's Day; Sunday.
3. Ellipsis of dominical letter.
4. (British, historical) A payment legally due from a parishioner to the parish, because the parishioner's house was built on land, ownership of which would have originally obliged the landowner to pay a tithe to the parish.
5. (archaic) Of or pertaining to the Lord's Day, Sunday.
6. (historical) Of or pertaining to the ancient system of dominical letters, used for determining Sundays (particularly Easter Sunday) in any given year.

Example Sentences

VVhereas 'tis clear, that Rome obſerved the firſt day of the vveek, becauſe 'tvvas the Dominical day, the day of our Lord's Reſurrection; vvhereas the proper Paſchal-day vvas tvvo or three days before the Lords day: […]

A largely attended meeting was held on Friday night in Exeter, to protest against the custom of levying dominicals, which is being enforced in several parishes in the city. It seems that London, York, and Exeter are the only three cities in which the custom exists.

The Dominical Prayer, and the Apoſtolical Creed, (vvhereof there vvas ſuch a hot diſpute in our laſt converſation) are tvvo Acts tending to the ſame object of devotion, yet they differ in this, that vve conclude all in the firſt, and ourſelves only in the ſecond, […]

And vvho knovvs not the ſuperſtitious rigor of his Sundays Chapel, and the licentious remiſſneſs of his Sundays Theater; accompanied vvith that reverend Statute for Dominical Jigs and Maypoles, publiſht in his ovvn Name, and deriv'd from the example of his Father James.

Word Forms

• dominicals

Antonyms for dominical

Common opposites include undominical, Sabbatarian.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include christian, dominionistic, dominative, domanial, christianistic, chrismal.

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