Wiktionary:Word of the day/2023/January 29

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for January 29
dominical adj (Christianity)
  1. Of or pertaining to Jesus Christ as Lord.
  2. (archaic) Of or pertaining to the Lord's Day, Sunday.
  3. (historical) Of or pertaining to the ancient system of dominical letters, used for determining Sundays (particularly Easter Sunday) in any given year.
    1. (figuratively, obsolete) Of printed text: in a large size.
    2. (figuratively, obsolete) Red, ruddy.

dominical n (Christianity)

  1. A person who keeps Sunday as a day of rest, but does not regard it as representing the Sabbath of the Old Testament of the Bible.
  2. (British, historical) A payment legally due from a parishioner to the parish, because the parishioner's house was built on land, ownership of which would have originally obliged the landowner to pay a tithe to the parish.
  3. (obsolete)
    1. The Lord's Day; Sunday.
    2. Short for dominical letter.
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