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Appellative   Listen
adjective
Appellative  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.
2.
(Gram.) Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class.






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"Appellative" Quotes from Famous Books



... guess to whom, among this jolly company, the Poet addresses himself: for immediately after the Plural appellative you, ...
— An English Garner - Critical Essays & Literary Fragments • Edited by Professor Arber and Thomas Seccombe

... had not been one of cyclopean clumsiness and weight, he would have borne it to the floor. A leaden tint was darkening the pallor of his face. They were becoming alarmed, and finally braving everything his wife timidly said, "Tom!" and then more sharply repeated it, and finally cried the appellative loudly, and again and again, with the terrified accompaniment, "He's dying—he's dying!" her voice rising to a scream, as she found that neither it nor her plucks and shakings of him by the shoulder had the slightest effect in ...
— J.S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 • J.S. Le Fanu

... Troteomvs, Sca. Agnes, Scs. Bitvs, Scs. Apolinnaris, Scs. Hyppolitvs, Scs. Sabastianvs, Scs. Severvs." Dr. Kandler thought that it came from the church of S. Niceta in Aquileia, and was brought to the island with other treasures in 452, for safety, from Attila. De Rossi thought that the appellative "Domna" distinguishing the Virgin was an argument against such high antiquity; but in a later number of his "Bullettino" he described an inscription of about 457 at Loja, in Spain, in which the title "Domnus" or "Domna" is applied to all the ...
— The Shores of the Adriatic - The Austrian Side, The Kuestenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia • F. Hamilton Jackson



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



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