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Webster 1913 Edition

Dominant

Dom′i-nant

,
Adj.
[L.
dominans
,
-antis
, p. pr. of
dominari
: cf. F.
dominant
. See
Dominate
.]
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
Dominant tenement
(Law)
,
the estate to which a servitude or easement is due from another estate, the estate over which the servitude extends being called the servient estate or tenement.
Bouvier.
Wharton’s Law Dict.
–
Dominant owner
(Law)
,
one who owns lands on which there is an easement owned by another.
Syn. – Governing; ruling; controlling; prevailing; predominant; ascendant.

Dom′i-nant

,
Noun.
(Mus.)
The fifth tone of the scale; thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
Dominant chord
(Mus.)
,
the chord based upon the dominant.

Webster 1828 Edition

Dominant

DOMINANT

,
Adj.
[L., to rule; lord, master; a house; to overcome, to subdue.]
1.
Ruling; prevailing; governing; predominant; as the dominant party, or faction.
2.
In music, the dominant or sensible chord is that which is practiced on the dominant of the tone, and which introduces a perfect cadence. Every perfect major chord becomes a dominant chord, as soon as the seventh minor is added to it.

DOMINANT

,
Noun.
In music, of the three notes essential to the tone, the dominant is that which is a fifth from the tonic.

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