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单词 dominie
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dominien.

/ˈdɒmɪni/
Forms: Also domine.
Etymology: The same word as domine n., the final pronounced e being written -ie, as in vernacular words.
1.
a. A schoolmaster, pedagogue. (Now chiefly Scottish)
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society > education > teaching > teacher > schoolteacher or schoolmaster > [noun]
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Khoja1625
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knight of the grammar1692
boy farmer1869
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a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) i. iii. 41 But will the dainty Domine, the Schoolemaster keep touch. View more context for this quotation
1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune iii. i. 34 Why who am I, good Sir Domine Doddle-pate?
1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. i. v. 37 He then walked to the door and admitted the barred-out Dominie.
1829 W. Scott Guy Mannering (new ed.) I. Introd. p. xxvii Dominie Sampson..a poor modest humble scholar, who has won his way through the classics... But there is a far more exact prototype of the worthy Dominie.
1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 129 The dominie spirit has become every year more obtrusive and intolerant in Mr. C.'s writing.
b. The (male) keeper of a boarding-house or Dame's house for oppidans at Eton.
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1817 J. Evans Excursion to Windsor 352 Oppidans..are boarded at private houses in the environs of the College; and the title of Domine and Dame, the presiding masters and mistresses have immemorially enjoyed.
1865 W. L. Collins Etoniana viii. 132 Formerly these houses were..kept by ‘Dames’ or ‘Dominies’..though now the term ‘Dame’ applies to all without reference to sex.
2. In U.S., the title of a pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church (more historically spelt domine n.); whence in New York, New Jersey, etc., extended colloquially to ministers or parsons of other churches. (Commonly pronounced, after Dutch, /ˈdəʊmɪnɪ/.)
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1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller (1849) 439 There are two family oracles, one or other of which Dutch housewives consult..the dominie and the doctor.
1855 W. Irving Chron. Wolfert's Roost 27 An elder might be seen..apparently listening to the dominie.
1887 C. Hazard Mem. J. L. Diman iii. 43.
3. In full dominie apple. A variety of large apple. U.S.
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1817 W. Coxe View Cultiv. Fruit Trees 115 The Domine was imported from England.
1867 J. A. Warder Amer. Pomology 430 Domine..Fruit large, flat, regular.
1876 J. Burroughs Winter Sunshine vii. 158 If they were the dominie apples..he certainly would [hasten his sermon].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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