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a. Belonging or relating to the Dominicans, or to St. Dominic.
Dominican nuns, an order of nuns founded in 1206. Their first convent in the United States was established in 1823, in Kentucky, since when others have been founded in various States. The nuns are chiefly employed in teaching.
[N. Lat. Dominicanus, from Dominicus, Dominic, the founder; Sp. Dominicano, Fr. Dominicain.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of an order of monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, and introduced into England A. D. 1221. The Dominicans hold the view that the Virgin Mary was born without the blemish of original sin;—they are called also predicants, preaching-friars, jacobins, and black-friars. Hook.