(a.) Of or pertaining to St. Dominic (Dominic de Guzman), or to the religions communities named from him.
(n.) One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins.
Example Sentences:
(1) I do want to thank all the fans and some of the media people that are here today and my Dominican people and all the Hispanic's all over the world.
(2) A taxi driver in the Dominican Republic, when shown a picture of Brown, said: "I picked him up from a Thomson flight three months ago.
(3) The greatest at-risk groups are Asians, especially recent immigrants, immigrants from the Dominican Republic, and probably patients with unexplained persistent hematuria.
(4) Presumably one of these "gangbangers" is Carmen Ortega (pdf), a 62-year-old grandmother of 14 with Alzheimer's who has been ordered deported to the Dominican Republic, a country where she has no remaining family, after living in the US for 40 years.
(5) If they have been taken and the person feels unwell, they should consult their doctor.” 'Hopeful' study of autism wins Samuel Johnson prize 2015 Read more MMS is sold by the self-styled Genesis II Church of Health and Healing , which is officially based in the Dominican Republic and claims a UK outpost in Rotherhithe, south-east London.
(6) The Liberal Democrats' biggest donor, who has been on the run for three years after being convicted of a multimillion pound theft, is hiding in the Dominican Republic under a false British identity, the Guardian can disclose.
(7) Michael Brown, who gave the party £2.4m before being sentenced in absentia to seven years' imprisonment for theft , has been hiding in the Dominican Republic for three years using documents issued in the name of Darren Patrick Nally.
(8) The Dominican Republic president, Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna, broke ground on the 20,000 square metre project on Wednesday.
(9) Michael Brown, who gave the party £2.4m of stolen money, had been on the run for nearly four years when he told a business associate the address of his Dominican Republic bolthole as he grew increasingly concerned by tics infesting his alsatian-rottweiler cross Charlie.
(10) Puerto Rican women living in metropolitan New York were at greatest risk of having a premarital birth (cumulative hazard rate at age 24=.2) then those living in Puerto Rico (.1) followed by Dominican women (.05).
(11) The only country where an autochthonous focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis has been discovered within the last 20 years is the Dominican Republic.
(12) Tony Brown, managing partner at law firm Bivonas which represents US attorney Robert Mann who was lost more than $5m (£3m), said: "This development may allow us to pursue Brown's assets in the Dominican Republic for our client."
(13) Moreover 18% of Dominicans delivered an infant before 18 years old whereas this figure for the 2 Puerto Rican groups was 13% and 10% respectively.
(14) In 2 countries, however, Haiti and the dominican Republic, the ratio of male to female cases is 4:1, which is intermediate between the ratio in Africa and that in the US.
(15) "The Nashville Dominicans tend to be the model conservative group held up to show how bad the liberals are," said Briggs.
(16) The recording of more events with the calendar method was confirmed by comparison conducted in Peru but not in the Dominican Republic.
(17) Security was the biggest problem, Delfin Antonio Rodriguez, the rescue commander from the neighbouring Dominican Republic, told the AFP news agency.
(18) Brown is believed to have entered the island under a false identity, which is a breach of Dominican law, he said.
(19) Experience in Cuba during the past 21 years, in Brazil during the past 5 years, and in the Dominican Republic during the past 2 years has shown that the strategy of annual short-term vaccination of all children in the most susceptible age groups can rapidly eliminate the disease from tropical and subtropical countries.
(20) A group called the Northwest Santa Tecla Ecological Defence Committee has filed a complaint with the environmental secretariat at the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Act (DR-Cafta) alleging that the Villa Veranda development could threaten local water supplies, biodiversity and quality of life for communities nearby.
Franciscan
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans.
(n.) A monk or friar of the Order of St. Francis, a large and zealous order of mendicant monks founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi. They are called also Friars Minor; and in England, Gray Friars, because they wear a gray habit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those outside Los Angeles, including San Franciscans and New Yorkers, assume some rivalry must exist between these major American cities, yet most Angelenos I know look forward to their their trips to NYC and would no sooner entertain the notion of a rivalry with San Francisco than they would a rivalry with Disneyland.
(2) Serra’s mandate only arose because the Vatican temporarily disbanded the Jesuits in 1767, and many of the mistakes he and the Franciscans made were the result of inexperience, according to Professor Starr.
(3) Round the corner was a tiny brick house called the Dwelling Place, a homeless shelter for women run by the Catholic Franciscan Sisters.
(4) From the back porch I can watch the fog roll in across the San Franciscan skyline.
(5) Campos has introduced a proposal that would make it available to any San Franciscan – male, female or transgender – who could benefit from it.
(6) I didn’t know that existed Trent Loos, farmer and radio host “I find regular Americans incredibly exotic,” the native San Franciscan said.
(7) Americans have been quick to back the nuns with protest vigils outside churches and a 50,000-strong petition, while seven groups of US Franciscan friars denounced the Vatican crackdown as "excessive".
(8) Pope Francis said on Monday his US trip in September will be limited to Washington, New York and Philadelphia and he will not go to California to canonise Junípero Serra, the 18th-century Spanish Franciscan priest who founded missions there.
(9) Accredited classics of psychedelic art – museum pieces by Hapshash and the Coloured Coat and the San Franciscan poster designers – rub up against fleeting paper products that are now extinct.
(10) The Christian denominations which jointly manage the church, including the Greek Orthodox, Franciscans and Armenians, have begun a campaign to win support in their battle with Hagihon.
(11) What appalled white San Franciscans was, of course, the craziness and random nature of the killings.
(12) Serra knew he couldn’t keep California a Franciscan mission protectorate forever.
(13) The perspective of Franciscans and Dominicans of that era was: God will punish us for the way we treat the Indians, so we’ve got to protect them as some kind of atonement,” Starr told the Guardian.
(14) "A recession calls into question our assumption that we can have it all and that we can have it now," says Hazel Buckley, a Franciscan sister.
(15) The only reason I’m here today writing this piece is because my ancestors didn’t live near any of the state’s 21 Franciscan missions.
(16) Elias Castillo , a three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, spent seven years researching and reading books published by the Franciscans, which include letters written by Serra himself.
(17) Forty-two churches have been torched, and so have many other buildings: the beautiful 19th-century villa that housed the Giza governorate office on the Pyramids road, the Franciscan girls' school in Beni Sweif south of Cairo, the library of veteran journalist Mohamed Heikal on the Qanater road, and more.
(18) We’re throwing a penalty flag on Ed Lee for unnecessary roughness on the homeless.” One positive outcome from the Super Bowl, however, is the surge of support for homeless residents from housed San Franciscans.
(19) They’re only entitled to a hearing,” said André LeMay, a Franciscan Brother working in the church shelter on Monday.
(20) The food heritage which Americans enjoy today owes its great diversity to the influences of many ethnic groups--the native Indians, Franciscan friars in California, Mexican-Americans, the British, the French, the Creoles, and later, northern Europeans and those of Mediterranean stock.