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dominie en · NOUN

Etymology

Alteration of domine, with spelling changed to reflect pronunciation. Doublet of dom, dominus, and don.

Meanings

1. (Scotland) A schoolmaster, teacher.
   • In the first room we entered, a soldier and a man, like a clerk or dominie, were discussing a bottle of red wine; they immediately sprang up and politely proffered us each a bumper. 1858, James Hogg, Titan, volume 27, page 306:
   • when it was time for the Strachan bairns to pass the end of the Cuddiestoun road on their way to school down there she was waiting and gave the paper to the eldest, the quean Marget, and told her to show it to the Dominie and ask him what it might mean. 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 24:
   • the sign-painter's boy said that when the dominie had reached the proper condition on Examination Evening he would "manage the thing". 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, section XXI:
2. (US) A pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church.

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donzel