Each of these 12 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
in Roman law, the right by which any one exercised control over property, and by which he was entitled to retain or alienate it at pleasure, as opposed to a mere life interest, or possessory or equitable right. Dominium direction, in feudal law, is the interest or superiority vested in the superior; and dominum utile is the interest or property vested in the vassal, as distinguished from that of the lord.
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the name formerly given to the hood or cape worn in winter by priests while officiating in cold edifices. It is now used to signify a masquerade costume, consisting of an ample cloak with wide sleeves and a hood.
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the Latin word which we commonly render by "lord," but which more properly signifies the master of a house, and his eldest son, as opposed to slave (servus). The term is applied by Christians to God and to Jesus as Himself God. The Scottish "dominie," in the sense of schoolmaster, is of course taken from it, as is the same term in America, where in some places it is the title of a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and in others is applied to Protestant clergymen generally.
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a Roman empress; born in Gaul about 56 A. D. She was the daughter of Domitius Corbulo, a general of Nero's reign. She was married first to Ælius Lamia, but the Emperor Domitian took her for his wife. Finding that her new husband intended to have her executed she caused his assassination in 96 A. D. Her subsequent career is uncertain, although she is said to have died in Rome about 100 A. D.
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TITUS FLAVIUS AU- GUSTUS (dō-mish'yan), the last of the "Twelve Casars," and youngest son of the Emperor Vespasian; born in 51 A. D. He early displayed the licentiousness and cruelty of his disposition, and was keptboth by his father and by his brother, the noble Titus, who succeeded Vespasian -entirely apart from public life. When proclaimed emperor, on the death of Titus, which he is suspected of having accelerated, if not procured, he proved the wisdom of the restraint which had been put upon him by the ferocity of his conduct. Aspiring to military fame he was unsuccessful in his undertakings, and after his defeat by the Dacians, who compelled him to make a humiliating peace, his natural disposition, suspicious, savage, gloomy and morose, manifested itself in all its naked deformity. To be honorable and virtuous was to be a mark for destruction, the mere suspicion of patriotism a warrant for death. His bloody reign furnishes some of the most thrilling pages of Tacitus; and points with its keenest shafts the withering irony of the satirist Juvenal. After escaping from many conspiracies, the monster fell, on Sept. 18, 96, the victim of a plot in which his wife, Domicia, bore a prominent part.
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the name borne by a line of Scotch kings who lived in the early ages of the Christian era, and whose annals are stained with murder, treachery, and revolting vices. DONALD I. began his reign in 216; and the VIIIth, called the "Bane," was dethroned by Edgar Atheling in 1098. town of
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don-a-tel'lo, in Hawthorne's Marble Faun, a young Tuscan count. Donatello's resemblance to the statue of the "Marble Faun" by Praxiteles gives the title to the story. See Marble Faun ; The
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GIAMBATTISTA (dō-nä' tē), an Italian astronomer; born in Pisa, in 1826; was appointed in 1852 assistant at the observatory in Florence, of which he became director in 1864. Here he discovered, inter alia, the brilliant comet of 1858, which is known as Donati's comet. He afterward was instrumental in erecting the fine observatory at Arcetri, near Florence, and constructed a spectroscope of 25 prisms. He died Sept. 20, 1873. DONATELLO
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one of a sect of schismatics in Africa, the followers of Donatus, Bishop of Casa Nigra, in Numidia. The sect arose in A. D. 311, when Cæcilianus was elected Bishop of Carthage, and consecrated by the African bishops alone, without the concurrence of those of Numidia. The people, resenting this, refused to acknowledge Cæcilianus, and set up Majorinus, who was then consecrated The Donatists held that by Donatus. Christ, though of the same substance with the Father, yet was less than the Father; they also denied the infallibility of the Church, which they said had fallen away in many particulars. They were condemned in a council held at Rome A. D. 313, also in another at Arles in the following year; and a third time, in A. D. 316, at Milan, before Constantine the Great. At the end of the 4th century they had a large number of churches, but soon after began to decline, owing to a schism among themselves, occasioned by the election of two bishops in the room of Parmenian, the successor of Donatus, and also through the zealous opposition of St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. They were finally suppressed in the 6th century by Pope Gregory the Great.
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a municipal borough in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and an important railway junction, on the right right bank bank of the Don. It has long been famous for its annual races, begun in 1703, and held a mile S. E. of the town in the second week of September. Colonel St. Leger, in 1776, founded stakes which have been yearly run for by the best horses in England. On an eminence 5 miles W. S. W. of Doncaster are the ruins of Conisborough Castle, the strong hold of Scott's "Ivanhoe. " A Norman-Saxon round tower, it is 37 feet in diameter and 86 feet high, with walls 15 feet thick. Pop. (1919) 51,592.
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a town of Ireland, on the Eske river. It is in a rich agricultural region. It is surrounded on three sides by hills. Near the town are the ruins of Donegal Castle. The town is one of the most historic in Ireland. Pop. about 3,000.
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THOMAS, Earl of Limerick; born in Castleton, Ireland, in 1634. After serving in the British and French armies and attaining the rank of colonel, he was appointed lieutenant-governor of Tangiers by Charles II. and colonial governor of New York by the Duke of York in 1682. He gave the city of New York its first charter in 1686 and being accused of ignoring his pacific instructions regarding the French and Indians, and of inciting the Five Nations to war, resigned his commission in 1688, returned to England in 1691, and inherited the earldom of Limerick in 1698. He died in London, Dec. 14, 1715.
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