Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DO-MIN'IC-AN
DO-MIN'IC-AN, a. [or n. from Dominic, the founder.]
The Dominicans, or Dominican Friars, are an order of religious or monks, called also Jacobins, or Predicants, preaching friars; an order founded about the year 1215. Encyc.
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