Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A name applied to a fish, the black escolar, Epinnula magistralis, in the West Indies.
Wiktionary
- n. Lord; master.
- n. A clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson.
- n. A West Indian fish (Epinula magistralis), of the family Trichiuridae.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A name given to a pastor of the Reformed Church. The word is also applied locally in the United States, in colloquial speech, to any clergyman.
- n. (Zoöl.) A West Indian fish (Epinula magistralis), of the family
Trichiuridæ . It is a long-bodied, voracious fish.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson
Examples
“Almost as important as the domine was the _voorleezer_ or chorister, who was also generally the bell-ringer, sexton, grave-digger, funeral inviter, schoolmaster, and sometimes town clerk.”
“One 'domine' has been known to brave public opinion and ride a bicycle, but for a mother in”
“Nothing but love of the man brings the 'domine' a wife, and she knows that there will be inquisitorial eyes and not too kind speeches about her behaviour from the 'faithful,' while the great people, to their loss, will ignore her socially in much the same way as Queen”
“Au premier plan se superposent les vieux toits inégaux des maisons que l'on domine.”
“L'extraction de minerai, en particulier diamantifère, domine l'activité économique, mais le tourisme progresse, grâce aux activités de préservation de la nature et à d'importantes réserves naturelles.”
“More than 25 years ago, when I dropped the needle on a U2 album for the first time, I heard the words of a familiar liturgy -- "Gloria in te domine, Gloria exultate!" punctuated by the keening sound of the Edge's guitar and followed by Bono's gnarly tenor shout-singing, "O Lord, loosen my lips!”
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“June 22nd, 2007 requiem aeternam dona eis, domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.”
requiem aeternam dona eis, domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.
“Eia nunc ergo tu, domine deus meus, doce cor meum ubi et quomodo te quaerat, ubi et quomodo te inveniat.”
“The tract is Absolve domine rather than Sicut cervus, found in the earlier polyphonic requiems of Ockeghem and La Rue.”
“This is the meaning conveyed by the antiphon Da pacem domine in diebus nostris.”
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