Dominican order
- noun
- /ˌdɒmɪˈnɪkən ˈɔrdər/
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orden dominicana
- Many members of the Dominican order actively participate in missionary work around the world.
Examples
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As a genuine "zealot for souls," this master insisted on the reform of the friary in order to prevent a great scandal for the Dominican order.
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Finally, in each case, the central figure was a member of the Dominican order.
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St. Thomas Aquinas was a simple monk who defied his rich family by joining the Dominican order in the 13th century.
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My summer assignment as a friar has brought me to the Big Apple, where I first met the Dominican order and discovered a call to the priesthood.
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Founded in the early thirteenth century, the Dominican order had by the early fourteenth lost much of its initial discipline in terms of poverty and other aspects of religious life.
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The Dominican lector proudly revealed that the young friars were accustomed to discussing the famous characteristics of the Dominican order during leisure time.
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The Dominican order is known for its commitment to scholarship and preaching throughout history.
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Saint Dominic founded the Dominican order in the early 13th century to promote education and religious teaching.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'Dominican' (pertaining to Saint Dominic or members of that religious family) with 'order' (a formal religious community), so together they denote the religious order associated with Dominicans. This compositional pattern—an adjective naming a founder/group plus 'order' to indicate a religious community—is cross-linguistically common and should be understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Dominican order comes from Saint Dominic, who in the early 1200s set up a group of men to study and preach. Those followers were called Dominicans after Dominic, and because they formed an order, or religious group, the phrase means 'a group of Catholic preachers and teachers'.
