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Appellative

adjective

Pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun.

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

... polytheism has arisen. Perhaps, however, we should rather use the word 'polydaemonism' than 'polytheism.' By a god is usually meant a being who has come to possess a proper name; and, probably, a spirit is worshipped for some considerable time, before the appellative, by which he is addressed, loses its original meaning, and comes to be the proper name by which he, and he alone, is addressed. Certainly, the stage in which spirits without proper names are worshipped ...

— The Idea of God in Early Religions • F. B. Jevons

... dictionary, common or appellative, I have omitted all words which have relation to proper names, such as Arian, Socinian, Calvinist, Benedictine, Mahometan, but have retained those of a more general nature, as ...

— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot

... which he uttered a response which was in fact the signal for bloodshed, not less than the savage ferocity of his preparations generally, amply sustained his pretension to this appellative. Munro knew his man too well not to perceive that to this "fashion must they come at last;" and simply assuring Dexter that he would submit his decision to his followers, he retired back upon the anxious and indignant party, who had ...

— Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia • William Gilmore Simms

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