vocable

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But some, on the authority of good authors, make the parts only eight; as Aristarchus, and, in our day, Palæmon; who have included the vocable, or appellation, with the noun, as a species of it.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

We find ourselves before a Greek vocable reproduced in Tifinar.

From Atlantida by Benôit, Pierre

Then the wrath of the old Inspector became vocable.

From The Red Acorn by McElroy, John

Never before or since, I fancy, has the air of the Adirondack wilderness vibrated more repugnantly to a vocable than it did that night to the word "academicism."

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry

Nothing human was alien to him, nor inhuman, for he rejected as quite meaningless the latter vocable, as he rejected such clichés as "organic and inorganic."

From Unicorns by Huneker, James