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Appellative   Listen
Appellative

adjective
1.
Pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun.
2.
Inclined to or serving for the giving of names.  Synonym: naming.  "The appellative function of some primitive rites"





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"Appellative" Quotes from Famous Books



... happened that Virgil's maternal grandfather bore the name of Magus. This, by the ignorant multitude in Naples, &c., who had been taught to reverence his tomb, was translated from its true acception as a proper name, to a false one as an appellative: it was supposed to indicate, not the name, but the profession of the old gentleman. And thus, according to the belief of the lazzaroni, that excellent Christian, P. Virgilius Maro, had stepped by mere succession and right of inheritance into his wicked old grandpapa's infernal ...
— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey
... sergeant of Yankee cavalry, was already a marked man in the eyes of the southern Sioux. Brule, Minneconjou and Ogallalla knew him well—his aquiline beak, to which the men would sometimes slyly allude, having won him the Indian appellative of Posh ...
— Warrior Gap - A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68. • Charles King
... Panegyric of Ennodius of Pavia in honour of Theodoric King of the Ostrogoths and Italy; the Laws of the Ostrogoths, Westrogoths, and Lombards, with the Book of Paulus Diaconus, who was himself a Lombard, and makes his nation come from Scandinavia. We shall add, at the end, the appellative names contained in the laws, with their original and explication. I would beg of your Sublimity, that being now returned to Sweden, you will give orders for communicating to me the old inscriptions, the ...
— The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius • Jean Levesque de Burigny


Words linked to "Appellative" :   nickname, denotative, denomination, noun, denotive, sobriquet, street name, title of respect, moniker, form of address, cognomen, naming, byname, name, appellation, soubriquet, title


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