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The external occipital protuberance of the skull.

Want or difference of belief; disbelief. [Obs.] Bp. Reynolds.

control; sovereignty; supremacy. I praised and honored him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion. Dan. iv. 34. To choose between dominion or slavery. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

l holiday, July lst, being the anniversary of the proclamation of the formation of the Dominion in 1867.

e highly esteemed and favored; -- in a good sense. [Obs.] God's disciple and his dearest minion. Sylvester. Is this the Athenian minion whom the world Voiced so regardfully Shak.

Small; delicate. [Obs.] "His minionette face." Walpole.

Kind treatment. [Obs.]

To flavor. [Obs.]

Like a minion; daintily. Camden.

State of being a minion. [R.]

Wrong opinion. [Obs.]

e of uncertain origin, perh. from the old designation of the colony as "the Colony and Dominion of Virginia."

han positive knowledge; settled judgment in regard to any point of knowledge or action. Opinion is when the assent of the understanding is so far gained by evidence of probability, that it rather inclines to one persussion than to another, yet not without a mixture of incertainty or doubting. Sir M. Hale. I can not put…

Being, or capable of being, a matter of opinion; that can be thought; not positively settled; as, an opinionable doctrine. C. J. Ellicott.

Opinionated.

Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion. Sir W. Scott.

Conceitedly. Feltham.

An opinionist. [Obs.]

Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated. Milton.

An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. [Obs.] South.