domIcal

[Eng.dom(e); -ical.] Pertaining to a dome; shaped like a dome, dome-like. "The luster reflected from every part of the earth, and from the wide domical scoop above it." -T. Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd , vol. ii., ch. vii., p. 86. dom-I-çile, *dom-I-çil, 8. [Fr., from Lat. domic ilium =a house, a habitation, from dom us a house, and cilium , supposed to be connected with celo to hide. ( Skeat .)] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Literally: *(1) A house. "This famous domicile was brought with the so appurtenances in one night from Nazareth."-Brevint: Saul and Samuel at Endor , p. 303. fate, fat, färe, amidst, what, fall, used in reference to bills payable in a given country; as, bills domiciled in France, Germany, . ( Bithell.) dom-I-çil-I-ar-y, a. [Fr. domicil i a ire, from Low Lat. domic i liar i us, from domic ilium.] 1. Ord . Lang .: Of or pertaining to one's domicile, house, or residence. "Domiciliary rights of the citizen."-Motley. 2. Law : Made under authority at a private house, for the purpose of searching for suspected persons or things. "It could be levied only by means of domiciliary visits." -Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. iii. B. As substantive: *1. Ord. Lang.: One who is in authority or power; 2. Music : (1) The name now given to the fifth note of the scale of any key, counting upward. Thus Gis the dominant in the key of C, F in that of B flat, and F sharp in that of B. It is so called because the key of a pa age cannot be distinguished for certain unle some chord in it has this note for root; for which reason also it is called in German der herrschende ton. The dominant plays a most important part in cadences, in which it is indispensable that the key should be strongly marked; and it is therefore the point of rest in the imperfect cadence or half-close, and the point of departure to the tonic in the perfect cadence, or full close. It also marks the division of the scale into two parts: as in fugues, in which, if a subject commences with the tonic, its answer commences with the dominant, and vice versal In the sonata form it used to be almost in the dominant, except when the movement was in a minor key, in which case it was optional for that part of the movement to be in the relative major. ( Grove .) for the second subject to in key of (2) The reciting note of Greg or i an chants. ( Stainer & Barrett .) dominant-chord, s. Mus.: A chord formed by grouping three tones rising by intervals of a third from the dominant. It is found almost invariably before the tonic chord which closes the perfect cadence.