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dominical
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As an adjective, dominical means of or pertaining to Jesus Christ as Lord. As a noun, it means a person who keeps Sunday as a day of rest, but does not regard it as representing the Sabbath of the Old Testament of the Bible.
Meanings of dominical
10 meaningsadjective
Of or pertaining to Jesus Christ as Lord.
Of or relating to or coming from Jesus Christ
Older and rare meanings (4)
archaicOf or pertaining to the Lord's Day, Sunday.
historicalOf or pertaining to the ancient system of dominical letters, used for determining Sundays (particularly Easter Sunday) in any given year.
figurativelyobsoleteOf printed text: in a large size.
figurativelyobsoleteRed, ruddy.
noun
A person who keeps Sunday as a day of rest, but does not regard it as representing the Sabbath of the Old Testament of the Bible.
Older and rare meanings (3)
UKhistoricalA payment legally due from a parishioner to the parish, because the parishioner's house was built on land, ownership of which would have originally obliged the landowner to pay a tithe to the parish.
obsoleteThe Lord's Day; Sunday.
obsoleteShort for dominical letter.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).