Dominic (SAINT logical Survey)
SAINT logical Survey in 1903, and in 1905- 1907 was engaged in travel and exploration in southwestern United States and in Mexico. From 1912 to 1917 he was geographer and editorial writer for the American Geographical Society. In 1918 he carried on special investigations on boundary problems for the Department of State. He served at the American Peace Commission in Paris in 1919. He was a member of many geographical societies and was the author of "The Frontiers of Language and Nationality in Europe" (1917).
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Dominic (SAINT the founder)
SAINT, the founder of the of the order Dominicans; born in Calahorra, in Old Castile, in 1170. He early distinguished himself by his zeal for the reform of the canonical life and by his success as a missionary among the Mohammedans. His attention having been directed to the Albigenses in the S. of France, he organized a preachers mission of against heresy in Languedoc. In 1215 he went to Rome to obtain the sanction of Pope Innocent III. to erect the mission into a new order of preaching friars. His request was only partiallly granted, and it was the succeeding Pope, Honorius III., who conferred full privileges on the Dominicans . He also appointed Dominic Master of the Sacred Palace or court preacher to the Vatican, an office which is still held by one of the order. Dominic died in Bologna in 1221, and was canonized in 1234 by Pope Gregory IX. St. Dominic is usually considered the founder of the Inquisition, but this claim is denied on the ground that two Cistercian monks were appointed inquisitors in 1198.
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Dominican Republic
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Dominicans
an order of preaching friars. It was founded in the thirteenth century by St. Dominic with a view to convert the Albigenses. The order spread rapidly in France, Italy, and adjacent parts of Germany. The rules of the order were founded on those of the Augustinians. They were called Black Friars from the color of their costumes. A large monastery stood near the east end of the present bridge of Blackfriars, London. Forty-eight Dominican monasteries were among the number suppressed by Henry VIII during the time of the English Reformation. Like the Jesuits, the Dominicans were known for scholarship. Three popes, half a hundred cardinals, and over eight hundred bishops have been members of this order. In the early days of the order no property but alms was permitted; but, as the order grew, houses and property became needful. See Monasticism
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Dominion of Canada
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Dominis
MARCO AN- TONIO, DE, a Dalmatian priest and scientist; born in the island of Arbe in 1566. He became in turn a physician, a Jesuit and Archbishop of Spalatro. He was the first to explain the rainbow. He denied the Pope's supremacy and later accepted it. He died in prison pr in Rome in 1624.
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Dominium
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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Domino
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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Dominus
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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Domitia
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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Domitian
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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Don (DOM lord a title originally)
or DOM (lord), a title originally assumed by the popes, from whom it descended to bishops and other dignitaries, and finally to monks. In France, the title dom was conferred on the Carlovingian kings; in Portugal and Brazil it is now the universal title of the higher classes. The Spanish don was originally confined to the nobility, but is now bestowed by courtesy as indiscriminately as the English Mr. or Esq. The feminine is doña (Ital. donna). The Dan in "Dan Chaucer" is a form of the same word, and we still speak of "college dons.' DOÑA FRANCISCA, a German colony in the Brazilian state of Santa Catharina, lying between the Serra do Mar and the ocean, 14 miles inland from the port of São Francisco. Area, 550 square miles; pop. about 26,000. Chief town, Joinville.
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