vocable

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The word, which Littleton called "an heptastic vocable," comprehended the names of the seven Lord Mayors in whose mayoralties the Monument was begun, continued, and completed.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

Thus, ‘people’ is indeed ‘populus’, but it was ‘peuple’ first, while ‘popular’ is a direct transfer of a Latin vocable into our English glossary.

From English Past and Present by Palmer, Abram Smythe

I regret to see that vile and barbarous vocable talented, stealing out of the newspapers into the leading reviews and most respectable publications of the day.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

Suppose I have an idea to which I give utterance by the vocable 'skrkl,' claiming at the same time that it is true.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William

It will be a welcome relief if camouflage, as popular five years ago as fin-de-si�cle twenty-five years ago, shall follow that now unfashionable vocable into what an American president once described as 'innocuous desuetude'.

From Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems by Society for Pure English