The dominical letters go backwards one day every common year, and two every leap year; e.
G, F will be the dominical letter for the next year.
The Dominical letter of the year must therefore be D.
The expression in the Dominical prayer translated "Give us this day [or day by day] our daily bread" (Mt.
The letter which coincides with the first Sunday within this period is called the dominical letter, and it serves for the following year.
There is no relationship with the course of the sun itself, but was invented for the purpose of determining the dominical letter which designates the days of the month on which the Sundays occur during each year of the cycle.
The imperial eagle stands out on top (as if added to the frontispiece) carrying on its breast the dominating planet and in its talons the ecclesiastical calends (that is, the dominical letter and the epact).
He also mentions the lunar cycle, and uses the dominical letter with the kalends of several years.
Such language does not suggest that the manses thus given are subservient to one dominant and dominical manse or manor; it is very unlike the language of the twelfth century[1157].
But, attending only to the dominical stock, we will begin by looking at the manor which stands first in the Cambridgeshire Inquest.
The dominical flocks and herds were not large, but the lords were receiving divers ploughshares in return for the pasture rights accorded to the tenants and in some of the vills there was not nearly enough meadow for the oxen of the villeins.
He speaks of the dominical host (hostia), and takes the verb to do in Paul's letter in the sense of to sacrifice.
The contrast lay between the Dominical Supper or food and drink shared unselfishly by all with all, and the private supper, the feast of Dives, shamelessly gorged under the eyes of timid and shrinking Lazarus.
Even benefit societies were feared and forbidden by the Roman autocrats, and the "dominical suppers" of the Christians were not likely to be spared.
In astronomy and astrology he is so far seen, that by the Dominical letter he knows the holy-days, and finds by calculation that Michaelmas term will be long and dirty.
But for all Cromwell's nose wears the dominical letter, compared to Manchester he is but like the vigils to an holy-day.
Here we have not only the four dominical days and the four colors, but also the four ages, four elements, and four seasons, all bearing some relation in this system to the four cardinal points.
The dominical letters go backwards one day every common year, and two every leap year; e.
At the end of the cycle the dominical letters return again in the same order, on the same days of the month.
It has already been shown that every additional day causes the dominical letter to go back one place.
Now what is true concerning the first four years of the era, is true concerning all the future years, and the reason for the divisions, additions and subtractions in finding the dominical letter is evident.
My Dear Max, You have had your Dominical letter, as you call it, so regularly, that you must know all our doings at Rockmount almost as well as ourselves.
Do not keep strictly to your Dominical letter just now--write any day that you can.
This Sabbath fasting was opposed by the eastern church; and in the sixth general council, held at Constantinople, it was commanded that the Sabbath and Dominical days be kept as festivals, and that no one fast or mourn upon them.
The Magdeburgenses say that this Council was about the observance of the Dominical day newly brought in, and that they ordained that it should be holy from the twelfth hour of Saturday even till Monday.
They were four in number, four gigantic brothers, who supported the four corners of the heavens, who blew the four winds from the four cardinal points, and who presided over the four Dominicalsigns of the Calendar.
His name stood third in the week of twenty days, and was the firstDominical sign, according to which they counted their year, corresponding to the Kan of the Mayas.
Hence the following table of dominical letters for four hundred years will serve to show the dominical letter of any year in the Gregorian calendar for ever.
The value of L is always given by the formula for the dominical letter, and P and l are easily deduced from the epact, as will appear from the following considerations.
In the Julian calendar the dominical letters are readily found by means of a short cycle, in which they recut in the same order without interruption.
It deserves to be remarked, that as the dominical letter of the first year of the era was B, the first column of the following table will give the dominical letter of every year from the commencement of the era to the Reformation.
In this manner it is easy to find the dominical letter belonging to each of the twenty-eight years of the cycle.
But every fourth year is a leap year, and the effect of the intercalation is to throw the dominical letter one place farther back.
The new Breviary contains a tabella ofDominical letters, up to the year 2000 A.
From this table we learn that theDominical letter for 1901 is F.
The Dominical letters were first introduced into the Calendar by the early Christians.
The letter which stands against the Sundays in any given year is called the Dominical or Sunday letter.
The historian is wrong in saying that the first year was called cuchhaab; that was the name applied to all the Dominical days, and as I have said, means "year bearer.
The Belgians are a tolerant race, however, and the matter has been settled by providing each stamp with what has been called a Dominical label.
It represents New York from the southeast, as seen in 1680 from Brooklyn Heights, and is obviously of great interest, being topographically accurate, and drawn with no slight degree of skill.
From a copy in the New York Public Library 160 NOTE A The present translation is substantially that of Mr. Henry C.
Domine Selyns of New York, in his letter to Willem à Brakel,[1] gives their true names.
The old calendar had a golden number and a dominical letter, but not a golden letter, which last must refer specifically to the practice of gilding important initials.
Does the Poet refer to its wonderfully burnished gold initials, and the red dominical letters which he must often have seen in the printed calendars, when he exclaims in tones of admiration: My red dominical--my golden letter!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dominical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
