dominical
Americanadjective
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of or relating to Jesus Christ as Lord.
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of or relating to the Lord's Day, or Sunday.
adjective
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of, relating to, or emanating from Jesus Christ as Lord
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of or relating to Sunday as the Lord's Day
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of dominical
First recorded in 1530–40; from Late Latin dominicālis, from Latin dominic(us) “of a lord, of the Lord” (from domin(us) “lord, master” + -icus -ic ) + -ālis -al 1
Example Sentences
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So goes one of Flannery O’Connor’s most enduring quotes, a salty twist on a dominical passage from the Book of John.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 9, 2017
It begins the ecclesiastical year, yet is a variable holiday fixed for each year by a complicated equation of epacts, dominical letters and Golden Numbers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now every day suppressed removes the dominical letter forward one place; so counting from C to C again is seven, D is eight, E is nine, and F is ten.
From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols
This, as has already been explained, is the dominical or solar cycle.
From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols
Thus, if the year 1 of the era be taken from 3, we would have 3 - 1 = 2; therefore, B being the second letter, is dominical letter for the year 1.
From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols
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