ish at Rome
(1623) his _Sui reditus ex Angliae consilium_, an abject repudiation of
his anti-papal works as written "non ex cordis sinceritate, non ex bona
conscientia, non ex fide," when Gregory died (July 1623). During the
interregnum that followed, the proceedings of the Inquisition against
the archbishop were revived, and they continued under Urban VIII. Before
they were concluded, however, Dominis died in prison, on the 8th of
September 1624. Even this did not end his trial, and on the 20th of
December judgment was pronounced over his corpse in the church of Santa
Maria sopra Minerva. By order of the Inquisition his body was taken from
the coffin, dragged through the streets of Rome, and publicly burnt in
the Campo di Fiore. By a strange irony of fate the publication of his
_Reditus consilium_ was subsequently forbidden in Venice because of its
uncompromising advocacy of the supremacy of the pope over the temporal
powers. As a theologian and an ecclesiastic Dominis was thoroughly
discredited; as a man of science he was more happy. He was the first to
put forward a true theory of the rainbow, in his _De radiis visus et
lucis in vitris perspectivis et iride_ (Venice, 1611).

See the article by Canon G. G. Perry in the Dict. _Nat. Biog._, and
that by Benrath in Herzog-Hauck, _Realencyklopadie_ (ed. 1898), iv. p.
781, where a full bibliography is given. Also H. Newland, _Life and
Contemporaneous Church History of Antonio de Dominis_ (Oxford, 1859).

DOMINOES, a game unknown until the 18th century, and probably invented
in Italy, played with twenty-eight oblong pieces, or dominoes, known
also as _cards_ or _stones_, having ivory faces backed with ebony; from
this ebony backing, as resembling the cloak (usually black) called a
domino (see MASK), the name is said to be derived. Cardboard dominoes to
be held in the hand are also in use. The face of each card is divided
into two squares by a black line, and in each square half the value of
the card is indicated by its being either a blank or marked with one or
more black pips, generally up to six, but some sets run as high as
double-nine. There are various ways of playing dominoes described below.

_The Block and Draw Games._--The dominoes are shuffled face downwards
on the table. The lead is usually decided by drawing for the highest
card, but it is sometimes held that any doublet takes precedence. The
cards are then reshuffled, and each player draws