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Roman Catholic order of friars founded 1215
by St Dominic; they are also known as Friars
Preachers, Black Friars, or Jacobins. The
order is worldwide and there is also an order
of contemplative nuns; the habit is black and
white. The first house was established in
Toulouse in 1215; in 1216 the order received
papal recognition, and their rule was drawn
up in 1220-21. They soon spread all over
Europe, the first house in England being
established in Oxford in 1221. The English
Dominicans were suppressed in 1559, but were
restored to a corporate existence in 1622.
Dominicans have included Thomas Aquinas,
Savonarola, and Las Casas. In 1983 there were
7,200 friars and 4,775 nuns.