dominion (ion as yun), dominioun

[Low Lat. dominio, from Lat. dominium. from dominus =a lord, a master; Ital. & Sp. dominio.] IMG:content-0363.png:[blocks in formation] "He could not have private dominion over that which was under the private dominion of another." -Locke. 4. A predominating power or influence; predominance, ascendency. 5. A district, region, or country under a certain government, or subject to the authority of a certain sovereign (generally in the plural). "High as his topmost boughs to heaven ascend, So low his roots to hell's dominion tend." Dryden: Virgil ; Georgic ii. 401, 402. *6. The seat of government or authority. "Judah was his sanctuary, Israel his dominion."- Psalm B. As substantive: Church History: 1. One of a religious order called in some places Prædicantes or Preaching Friars, and in France es Jacobins, from their first convent in Paris being in the Rue 'St. Jacques. They took their ordinary name from their founder, Dominic de Guzman (afterward canonized under the name of St. Dominic), a Spanish ecclesiastic, born in 1170 at Calahorza, in Old Castile. He was first canon and archdeacon of Osuma or Osma; he afterward preached with great fervor and vehemence against the Albi genses, in Langue doc, where he laid the first foundations of his order, the special purpose of which was to oppose the doctrines of the Alb i gen The new order was approved of in 1215 by Pope Innocent III., and confirmed in ses. (4) Dominica dies: Eccles.: The Lord's Day, Sunday. (5) Dominica in alb is : Eccles.: Low Sunday, the Sunday next after Easter Day; so called because on that day those who had been baptized on Easter Day put off their white garments.