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• Dominical letter — Dominical letters are letters A, B, C, D, E, F and G assigned to days in a cycle of seven with the letter A always set against 1 January as an aid for finding the day of the week of a given calendar date and in calculating Easter. A common year… …   Wikipedia

• Dominical Letter — • A device adopted from the Romans by the old chronologers to aid them in finding the day of the week corresponding to any given date, and indirectly to facilitate the adjustment of the Proprium de Tempore to the Proprium Sanctorum when… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Dominical — Do*min ic*al, a. [LL. dominicalis, for L. dominicus belonging to a master or lord (dominica dies the Lord s day), fr. dominus master or lord: cf. F. dominical. See {Dame}.] 1. Indicating, or pertaining to, the Lord s day, or Sunday. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Dominical altar — Dominical Do*min ic*al, a. [LL. dominicalis, for L. dominicus belonging to a master or lord (dominica dies the Lord s day), fr. dominus master or lord: cf. F. dominical. See {Dame}.] 1. Indicating, or pertaining to, the Lord s day, or Sunday.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Dominical letter — Dominical Do*min ic*al, a. [LL. dominicalis, for L. dominicus belonging to a master or lord (dominica dies the Lord s day), fr. dominus master or lord: cf. F. dominical. See {Dame}.] 1. Indicating, or pertaining to, the Lord s day, or Sunday.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Dominical Letter —    Meaning Sunday Letter is one of the first seven letters of the alphabet used in the Calendar to mark the Sundays throughout the year. The first seven days of the year being marked by A. B. C. D. E. F. G., the following seven days are similarly …   American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• Year — A year (from Old English gēar) is the orbital period of the Earth moving around the Sun. For an observer on Earth, this corresponds to the period it takes the Sun to complete one course throughout the zodiac along the ecliptic. In astronomy, the… …   Wikipedia

• DOMINICAL LETTER —    one of seven letters, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, used to mark the Sundays throughout the year, so that if A denote the first Sunday, it will denote all the rest, and so on with B, C, &c., till at the end of seven years A becomes the dominical letter …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• dominical — adjective a) Pertaining to the day of the Lord (i.e., Jesus): Sunday. b) Pertaining to the dominical letter, an ancient system for determining Sundays (and especially Easter Sunday) in any given year …   Wiktionary

• dominical letter — n. any of the first seven letters in the alphabet as used in church calendars to indicate Sundays: the letters are assigned to the first seven days of January, and the letter falling to Sunday is the arbitrary symbol for Sunday the rest of the… …   English World dictionary

• Dominical — Not to be confused with dominical letter or dominical saying. Dominical is a beach front town in the province of Puntarenas in Costa Rica approximately 45 km south of Quepos. It is famous for large, year round waves and is well known by …   Wikipedia