subs. (old).—A clergyman; modern Scots = a pedagogue or schoolmaster. [From Latin dominus, a lord or master.]
1616. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, The Scornful Lady, II., i. Wel. [addressing parson], Adieu, dear DOMINE!
1754. FOOTE, The Knights, Act ii. She falls in love with young Sleek, her father’s chaplain;… what does me I, but slips on DOMINE’S robes, you; passed myself upon her for him, and we were tacked together.
1819. T. MOORE, Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress, p. 21.
| And, take him at ruffianing work (though, in common, he | |
| Hums about Peace and all that, like a DOMINE. |
1883. J. BRINSLEY RICHARDS, Seven Years at Eton, xii. The Scotch DOMINIE, from whom he had learnt Latin … knew nothing of elegiacs.
