Domestic ("belonging to the house or household") has several ecclesiastical senses:
(1) Domestici are all who belong to the "household of faith."
(2) In the East, the principal dignitary in a church choir after the "chief singer." There was one on each side of the choir, to lead the singers in antiphonal chanting.
(3) Domesticus Ostiorum ("of the doors"), the chief doorkeeper at Constantinople. See Smith, Dict. of Christ. Antiq. s.v.
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John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More