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Dominical adj.

Indicating, or pertaining to, the Lord's day, or Sunday.

Relating to, or given by, our Lord; as, the dominical (or Lord's) prayer. "Some words altered in the dominical Gospels."

Dominical altar (Eccl.), the high altar.

Dominical letter, the letter which, in almanacs, denotes Sunday, or the Lord's day (dies Domini). The first seven letters of the alphabet are used for this purpose, the same letter standing for Sunday during a whole year (except in leap year, when the letter is changed at the end of February). After twenty-eight years the same letters return in the same order. The dominical letters go backwards one day every common year, and two every leap year; e. g., if the dominical letter of a common year be G, F will be the dominical letter for the next year. Called also Sunday letter. Cf. Solar cycle, under Cycle, n.

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Etymology of 'Dominical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dominical" Quotes from Famous Books

... first year they placed in the East [that is, on the Katun-wheel, and in the figures in their books], calling it cuch haab; the second in the West, called Hijx; the third in the South, Cavac; and the fourth, Muluc, in the North, and this served them for the Dominical letter. When five of the lustros had passed, that is 20 years, they called it a Katun, and they placed one carved stone upon another, cemented with lime and sand, in the walls of their temples, or in the houses ...

— The Maya Chronicles - Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 • Various

Words linked to "Dominical" : Jesus, Sunday