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–noun

1.	Chiefly Scot. a schoolmaster.

2.	a pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church.

3.	Chiefly Hudson Valley. a pastor or minister.

[Origin: 1605–15; var. of domine

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n. Scots

A cleric.
A schoolmaster.

[Obsolete domine, clergyman, from Latin, vocative of dominus, lord; see dem- in Indo-European roots.]

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dominie
noun
a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson [syn: dominus]

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Dominie

Dame\ (d[=a]m), n. [F. dame, LL. domna, fr. L. domina mistress, lady, fem. of dominus master, ruler, lord; akin to domare to tame, subdue. See Tame, and cf. Dam a mother, Dan, Danger, Dungeon, Dominie, Don, n., Duenna.]

1. A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.

Then shall these lords do vex me half so much, As that proud dame, the lord protector's wife. --Shak.

2. The mistress of a family in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school.

In the dame's classes at the village school. --Emerson.

3. A woman in general, esp. an elderly woman.

4. A mother; -- applied to human beings and quadrupeds. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

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