appellative
Example Sentences
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Now a taxidermied water buffalo head — the ox — watches from above the bar, while the appellative bull is represented across from it in gleaming metal.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2023
Why Mister Gallagher, where did you learn that respectful appellative?
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne
It is indeed easy to conceive, that Simon might have been commonly distinguished by either appellative, but this we can only conjecture; neither Evangelist adds a word to explain the point.
From An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by Greenleaf, Simon
From the verb comes the appellative ffrwd, a torrent, corresponding with the Bohem. praud, of the same meaning.
From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert
In the above Sansc. var, to moisten, to water, is contained, as I take it, the root of the Finnic wirta, a river, the only appellative I can find for the following.
From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert
