vocable

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We find ourselves before a Greek vocable reproduced in Tifinar.

From Atlantida by Benôit, Pierre

But they who make the noun one and the vocable an other, reckon nine.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

Ideas breed vocables; but seldom, except among rhymesters, does a vocable give birth to a popular idea: and in Arabic “Sibr,” as well as “Sabr,” is the name of the Aloe.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

He would have analyzed this particular one with a minute delicacy beyond the powers of Clem Sypher through whose head rang the echo of the irritating vocable for some time afterwards.

From Septimus by Locke, William John

Often I had wished to test in speech the widely alleged merits of this vocable.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon