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Definition of Dominical
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or coming from Jesus Christ.
2. Adjective. Of or relating to Sunday as the Lord's Day.
Definition of Dominical
1. a. Indicating, or pertaining to, the Lord's day, or Sunday.
2. n. The Lord's day or Sunday; also, the Lord's prayer.
Definition of Dominical
1. Adjective. (rare) Pertaining to the day of the Lord (i.e., Jesus): Sunday. ¹
2. Adjective. Pertaining to the dominical letter, an ancient system for determining Sundays (and especially Easter Sunday) in any given year. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dominical
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Dominical
1. 1. Indicating, or pertaining to, the Lord's day, or Sunday. 2. Relating to, or given by, our Lord; as, the dominical (or Lord's) prayer. "Some words altered in the dominical Gospels." (Fuller) Dominical altar, 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. Origin: LL. Dominicalis, for L. Dominicus belonging to a master or lord (dominica dies the Lord's day), fr. Dominus master or lord: cf. F. Dominical. See Dame. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dominical
Literary usage of Dominical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"For example, to find the dominical Letter of the year 1913:— TV. ... Therefore the
dominical Letter is E. But the dominical Letter had another very ..."
2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1894)
"This change is provided for by giving Leap year two dominical Letters ... And,
since a common year contains 52 weeks and one day, the dominical Letter ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"This rule is conveniently dominical Letter.—The first problem which the construction
of the calendar presents is to connect the week with the year, ..."
4. Elements of Astronomy by John Hubbard Wilkins (1829)
"Of the dominical Letter. 219. The dominical Letter for any year is that which is
placed against Sunday in common almanacks; and is always one of the seven ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"dominical Letter.—The first problem which the construction of the calendar presents
is ... The letter which denotes Sunday is called the dominical Letter, ..."
6. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1859)
"Capital, Roseau, on the 8. W. side of the island ; pop. about 4000. dominical LETTER,
the letter denoting Sunday for a given year. ..."
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