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Dominican order   /dəmˈɪnəkən ˈɔrdər/   Listen
Dominican order

noun
1.
A Roman Catholic order of mendicant preachers founded in the 13th century.





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... name of Jacobins was given to the monks of the Dominican Order, some of whom had a monastery in the suburbs ...
— The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) • Margaret, Queen Of Navarre
... annual celebration of the Dominican Order held in October in honor of its patroness, the Virgin of the Rosary, to whose intervention was ascribed the victory over a Dutch fleet in 1646, whence the name. See Guia Oficial de Filipinas, 1885, pp. ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal
... to Manila to trade, and were located in the neighbouring village of Dilao, [29] where the Franciscan friars undertook their conversion to Christianity, whilst the Dominican Order considered the spiritual care of ...
— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman
... the founder of the Dominican order, a descendant of the noble family of the Guzmans? Machiavelli wrote a treatise to prove it; but in the Biographie Universelle it is stated (I know not on what authority) that Cardinal Lambertini, afterwards Benedict XIV., having summoned that lawyer to produce the originals, ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 • Various
... near Aquino, Italy, probably in 1225, died in 1274; entered the Dominican order; studied at Cologne under Albertus Magnus; taught at Cologne, Paris, Rome and Bologna; his chief work the "Summa Theologiae"; his complete writings ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)--Continental Europe I • Various


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