Meaning of dominical | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of or pertaining to Jesus Christ as Lord.
   not-comparable
2. Of or pertaining to the Lord's Day, Sunday.
   archaic, not-comparable
3. Of or pertaining to the ancient system of dominical letters, used for determining Sundays (particularly Easter Sunday) in any given year.
   figuratively, historical, not-comparable, obsolete
4. Of printed text: in a large size.
   figuratively, historical, not-comparable, obsolete
5. Red, ruddy.
   figuratively, historical, not-comparable, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“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, […]”

“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]t the firſt Intervievv vvith Mrs. Heartfree, Mr. VVild had conceived that Paſſion, […] vvhich is indeed no other than that Friendſhip vvhich, after the Exerciſe of the Dominical Day is over, a luſty Divine is apt to conceive for the vvell-dreſt Sirloin, or handſome Buttock, vvhich the vvell-edified 'Squire, in Gratitude, ſets before him, and vvhich, ſo violent is his Love⟳, he is deſirous to devour.”

“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.”

“I haue compoſde a Dictionary, in vvhich / He is inſtructed, hovv, vvhen, and to vvhom / To be proud or humble; at vvhat times of the yeare / He may do a good deed for it ſelfe, and that is / VVrit in Dominicall letters, […]”

“[S]uch obſerved that our Fights of greateſt importance vvere fought on the Lords day, As the Fight⟳ at Edgehill, Nevvbury, &c. as pointing at our ſin in the puniſhment, and Gods vvrath vvas vvritten in Dominical letters: […]”

“[T]hese nails that by good token have⟳ not been pared since eighty-eight, should have⟳ scratched your face⟳ till it had been a dominical one, and as full of red letters as any Pond's Almanac in Christendom.”

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