Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or explaining a name or names.
- adjective Of or relating to onomastics.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or consisting of a name: specifically applied in law to the signature of an instrument the body of which is in the handwriting of another person, or to the instrument so signed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Law) Applied to a signature when the body of the instrument is in another's handwriting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, or relating to a
personal orplace name - adjective of, or relating to
onomastics
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or related to onomastics
Etymologies
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Examples
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A similar kind of onomastic matrilineage is established through a practice Junod, around the turn of the century, described as the most frequent method of infant-naming among the Tsonga, and through which many of the eldest interviewees had received their birth name: consulting the divining bones to obtain the name of an ancestor so as to kupfuxa (wake up) that ancestor's spirit in the person of the child.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Once the purely linguistic approach has been abandoned, an opportunity has been provided for a new kind of onomastic vision which treats names as names and not just as words with peculiar properties.
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From the very site of 9/11 comes this onomastic mockery of the "Big Apple," inscribed on a traditional Islamic jihadist weapon, no less.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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And this onomastic prejudice is visited upon the Canadian-born descendants of immigrants as well.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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This sort of onomastic racial profiling, not surprisingly, is common south of the border, whence our own securibots seem to get all their ideas.
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This sort of onomastic racial profiling, not surprisingly, is common south of the border, whence our own securibots seem to get all their ideas.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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On page 269 of Tarquinia: Archeologia e prosopografia tra ellenismo e romanizzazione, Federica Chiesa explores the history of the Etruscan gens Sentina and states in Italian: The brief onomastic formula of this Šethre Sentina Ta 1.202 neither presents us with ulterior data nor relevance to our knowledge of the gens, which despite the nomen of an ethnic type, boasts exclusively Tarquinian attestation.
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On page 269 of Tarquinia: Archeologia e prosopografia tra ellenismo e romanizzazione, Federica Chiesa explores the history of the Etruscan gens Sentina and states in Italian: The brief onomastic formula of this Šethre Sentina Ta 1.202 neither presents us with ulterior data nor relevance to our knowledge of the gens, which despite the nomen of an ethnic type, boasts exclusively Tarquinian attestation.
Archive 2010-08-01 2010
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Discusses the chronological and onomastic difficulties arising from the identification of the queen with the widow of Judas Aristobulus.
Hasmonean Women. 2009
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I realize I sound like a complete and utter neophyte, but I'm quite curious about this potential onomastic connection to Minoan Crete.
super-kawy commented on the word onomastic
1. Of, relating to, or explaining a name or names.
2. Of or relating to onomastics.
September 22, 2009