Definition of "dominus" [dom•i•nus]

• Master; sir; a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor (noun)

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• "For that which in speaking of goods and possessions is called an owner, and in Latin dominus in Greek kurios; speaking of actions, is called author."
• "For that which in speaking of goods and possessions is called an ‘owner’ and in Latin dominus, in Greek [Greek]; speaking of actions is called author."
• "In oriental monarchies the dominus is the monarch; in republics it is the public or people fixed to the soil or territory, that is, the people in their territorial, and not in their personal or genealogical relation."