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Dominie   Listen
noun
Dominie  n.  
1.
A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. (Scot.) "This was Abel Sampson, commonly called, from occupation as a pedagogue, Dominie Sampson."
2.
A clergyman. See Domine, 1. (Scot. & Colloq. U. S.)





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"Dominie" Quotes from Famous Books



... about "Dominie" Pratt that impressed people with the idea that he would be a great "fighting parson." He was so big, burly and bearded, fierce looking as a dragoon, and with an air of intense earnestness. He was very pious and used to hold prayer meetings in his tent, conducted ...
— Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman - With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War • J. H. (James Harvey) Kidd
... hearer waited until he "heard his name called," after which he might sink back again to his dreams. Even to this day, on leaving a Dutch church, it is a common question among the separating members to inquire of each other, "Have you heard the dominie call your name?" They mean by this, "Have you heard the pastor so describe people that you could not mistake the ...
— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst


Words linked to "Dominie" :   dominus, reverend, dominee


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