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

Such, however, is not the case, George being his only Christian appellative.

From Hair-Breadth Escapes The Adventures of Three Boys in South Africa by Adams, H.C.

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

GEORGE'S, the name being suggested, in the first place, by the baptismal appellative of their virtual founder and Hon. Sec.,

From The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion by Edge, Frederick Milnes

This familiar appellative had followed him into the army.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton