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▪ I. Dominican, a.1 and n.1|dəˈmɪnɪkən|
[ad. eccl. L. Dominicānus, f. Dominicus, Latin form of the name of Domingo de Guzman, also called St. Dominic, the founder of an order of preaching friars: cf. F. dominicain.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to St. Dominic or to the order of friars (and nuns) founded by him.
1680Waller (title) Narrative of the Feigned Visions..of the Dominican Fathers of the Convent of Berne. 1725–51Chambers Cycl. s.v. Friars, Dominican, or black, or preaching friars. 1756tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) III. 273 In the Dominican convent. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. II. 13 The course taken by the court of Rome (chiefly dominican influence). 1885Catholic Dict. 279/1 In Ireland..seven convents of Dominican nuns.
B. n. A friar of the order founded by St. Dominic: a Black friar.
a1632Weever (Mason) Their rule and habit was much⁓what like that of the Dominicans. 1845S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Ref. I. 259 The Dominicans, who taught the strictest doctrines..had the right to enforce them by means of fire and sword.
Hence Doˈminicaˌness, a Dominican nun.
1857G. Oliver Coll. Cath. Relig. in Cornwall, etc. 65 Two or three Dominicanesses of the third Order.
▪ II. Dominican, n.2 and a.2|dɒmɪˈniːkən|
[f. Dominica (see def.), f. L. (dies) dominica Sunday, the day of the week on which the island was discovered in 1493, + -an.]
A. n. A native or inhabitant of the island of Dominica in the Lesser Antilles.
1826H. N. Coleridge Six Months in W. I. 1825 158 The Dominicans became more scrupulous, and a governor came who knew not Audain. 1898R. T. Hill Cuba & Porto Rico xxiii. 236 The only true Dominicans are the inhabitants of Dominica, one of the larger islands of the Lesser Antilles. 1929H. L. Foster Combing Caribbees v. 50 Several Dominicans had booked passage with us to Fort de France. 1968S. Hawys Mount Joy ix. 93 A favoured few Dominicans may see the interior of those yachts. 1973Advocate-News (Barbados) 24 Nov. 2/4 Speakers also turned their attention to common problems facing Dominicans.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Dominica or its inhabitants.
1888J. A. Froude English in W. Indies xi. 156 Another small incident happened.., which showed the capital stuff of which the Dominican boatmen and fishermen are made. 1937H. De Leeuw Crossroads of Buccaneers 223 In this Dominican forest..the evidence of continual development is beyond the slightest question. 1969Word XXV. 276 The main consonantal correspondences between Island-Carib in its Dominican (DIC) and Central American (CAIC) dialects. 1978Language LIV. 225, I can say, however, that untraveled native speakers of Dominican French Creole understand very little of radio broadcasts in Haitian Creole.
▪ III. Dominican, a.3 and n.3|dəˈmɪnɪkən|
[ad. Sp. Dominicana, f. Santo Domingo (see Dominican a.1 and n.1), the name of one of the earliest settlements, and subsequently of the Spanish colony and Republic until 1844, and of the capital city of the Republic.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the Dominican Republic or its inhabitants. Dominican Republic, the name of an independent state in the Greater Antilles, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti.
1853B. C. Clark Plea for Hayti 34 It was during the government of Boyer that the Spanish or Dominican part of the Island was united with the French part. 1862Chambers's Encycl. III. 628/1 In or about 1843, it assumed a separate standing as the Dominican Republic. 1912S. Bonsal Amer. Mediterranean vii. 137 Every month 100,000 dollars gold goes to New York and a handsome sum is paid into the Dominican treasury. 1959Chambers's Encycl. IV. 592/1 The two dominant figures in Dominican politics in the middle of the 19th century were Santana and Báez. 1963Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 14 Dec. (1970) 17 The conversation was about recognizing the Dominican Republic. 1985Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Jan. 28/1 The attempt to influence the Dominican Republic..only succeeded in forcing Dominican thinkers into a hispanophile, negrophobic and indianist mould.
B. n. A native or inhabitant of the Dominican Republic.
1853B. C. Clark Plea for Hayti 35 Thus it is seen that the Dominicans adopted the Haytien Government not only voluntarily but joyfully. 1912S. Bonsal Amer. Mediterranean vii. 123 Revolutionary practices had become as deeply ingrained with the Dominicans as electioneering campaigns with us. 1929H. L. Foster Combing Caribbees xviii. 275 The Dominicans were now carrying on for themselves all the various works of sanitation and road-building. 1959Chambers's Encycl. IV. 592/1 The Dominicans..tried desperately to obtain the protection of Great Columbia. 1973Advocate-News (Barbados) 2 Feb. 1/5 Thousands of Dominicans watched on TV as six-inch stainless steel nails were driven through his hands and feet. |