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Ruling; governing; prevailing; controlling; predominant; as, the dominant party, church, spirit, power. The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, . . . but imperious, insolent, and cruel. Macaulay. Dominant estate or tenement (Law), the estate to which a servitud…

cendency over others; superior in strength, influence, or authority; prevailing; as, a predominant color; predominant excellence. Those help . . . were predominant in the king's mind. Bacon. Foul subordination is predominant. Shak.

In a predominant manner.

The fourth tone above, or fifth below, the tonic; -- so called as being under the dominant.

The sixth tone of the scale; that next above the dominant; -- called also submediant.

or the state of a substance in which alkaline properties begin to be developed, or to predominant. Ure.

, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant, its fifth below (fourth above), or subdominant, and its relative minor or major.

ation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octave below the tonic.

third party within a state) to control the relations between sovereign states or between dominant parties in a state. -- Balance sheet (Bookkeeping), a paper showing the balances of the open accounts of a business, the debit and credit balances footing up equally, if the system of accounts be complete and the balance…

nities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.

The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue.

rain; the point of rest, commonly reached by the immediate succession of the tonic to the dominant chord.

Being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude; hence, predominant. [R.]

g the deeper reality from our eyes. Trench. Deceptive cadence (Mus.), a cadence on the subdominant, or in some foreign key, postponing the final close.

An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note.

. "A city dominated by the ax." Dickens. We everywhere meet with Slavonian nations either dominant or dominated. W. Tooke.

To reduce to slavery; to make a slave of; to subject to a dominant influence. The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose. Milton. Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will. Cowper.

The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like. The . . . word essence . . . scarcely underwent a more complete transformation when from being the…

interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key.

nterval of two tones and a semitone, embracing four diatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key. The Fourth, specifically, un the United States, the fourth day of July, the anniversary of the declaration of American independence; as, to celebrate the Fourth.